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For anxiety “getting yourself out there” can literally be the entire issue in the case of agoraphobia, and the reason you see a doctor. I don’t see this law as
by faeriechangling 4y ago
For anxiety “getting yourself out there” can literally be the entire issue in the case of agoraphobia, and the reason you see a doctor.
I don’t see this law as trivializing the treatment of anxiety, I’ve seen it be treated across multiple patients over a course of a quarter century and I would say probably “get yourself out there” was the most common treatment option used across many visits because being housebound tends to make the anxiety issues people are worried about enough to go to the doctor about worse.
I’ve also generally seen practices like children and dependant adults with autism (who usually have comorbid anxiety) getting guided through all manner of public places with social workers and guided to do various tasks and a huge objective of such efforts is to soothe any anxiety issues in such exchanges. I’ve seen quite a lot of this actually at significant public expense.
In any case if you read between the lines this story essentially means people with anxiety can go to the museum for free and that’s probably a positive development since we want to remove any potential barriers to the anxious getting out of the house (poverty is another anxiety comorbidity).