> Depression and anxiety are medical diagnoses. The other are normal emotions everyone can, should, and does experience. Why? In what sense are they "normal"?

> Depression and anxiety are medical diagnoses. The other are normal emotions everyone can, should, and does experience. Why? In what sense are they "normal"? They're unpleasant and they leave you worse off than you were before you experienced them. It's also becoming clearer that frequently experiencing them has harmful physical effects from stress responses. Over-diagnosis with depression and anxiety is bad because the treatments have such a wide array of potential side effects and limited evidence for efficacy, but it makes no sense to not categorize something as a disease just because we can't treat it.