ANXIETY is part of being human, we all have it. And to get anxious in certain situations is normal, everyone does. Most people even experience high anxiety regularly since things such as tests, interviews, public speaking, first dates and competitive sports can make anyone pretty anxious. Anxiety keeps us safe. To be anxious means: "Be wary, potential pain ahead". In the examples above (tests...
Generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, social anxiety disorder (social phobia), PTSD, panic disorder... The current worldview of these problems is driven by the medical model and the belief that they are (mental) illnesses caused by something going wrong in our brain and that the answer lies in 'fixing' the thing that has gone wrong. However, take the man in his early twenties, whose father...