The anxiety disease
by David V. Sheehan · first published 1983
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…the OP, doesn't work for anxiety or some of its other symptoms, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia, paranoia, hysteria, psychopathic-passive. For more, there is David V. Sheehan, M.D., The Anxiety Disease. where he argues that, even after controlling on various obvious candidate variables, anxiety disease is four times more common in human females than human males. He conjectures that the difference…
on “Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases” ↗…for essentially anything except getting pregnant, has had reproductive advantage. For a reference with the factor of four and the guess about reproductive advantage, see: David V. Sheehan, M.D., 'The Anxiety Disease', ISBN 0-553-25568-1. You are angry at what I wrote, and a guess is that you see unfairness. So, you are doing what E. Fromm explained from the French Revolution: You are seeing any difference as evidence…
on “My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer” ↗…obsessive/compulsive disorder. Well such neurotic behavior is commonly a case of anxiety. Some experts claim that it is known that talk therapy doesn't work for OCD. As in David V. Sheehan, M.D., The Anxiety Disease, even quite broadly across cultures, anxiety disease is four times more common in human females than human males. Then the author conjectures that a disease so pervasive, even one so harmful, must have…
on “Married to someone with anxiety” ↗