“I was very nervous about coming out as anxious,” Stossel says. “And now it’s too late and I can’t un-come out. It hasn’t been a cure, but it has been something of a relief. I now feel there are practical things I can help with, like trying to reduce the stigma around anxiety.”
He says we ought to view anxiety less as a “psychological problem” and more like a “medical condition, in the way gout or diabetes is. These are things that need to be managed and treated, and have an organic basis. It’s not necessarily that you are weak, but that you have an illness.”
Yet while we understand how our modern diet is making gout and diabetes more common, the causes of anxiety are more mysterious.
Everybody Is Anxious, and Nobody Wants to Talk About It http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117448/everybody-anxious-and-nobody-wants-talk-about-it
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