Something is a disorder if it is disruptive to what is widely perceived as a constructive life. Anxiety driving one to become more successful can hardly be cons

Something is a disorder if it is disruptive to what is widely perceived as a constructive life. Anxiety driving one to become more successful can hardly be construed as such. Only if you take individual happiness and contentment as the ideal baseline, and deviations from it as dysfunction, would all forms of anxiety be considered disorders. But such an ideal is incongruent with reality, which is an adversarial landscape where survival and reproduction mediate existence, not individual happiness or contentment.