Diagnoses are crap; they exist so that insurance companies can sleep at night, if they sleep at all,” said my psychologist as she informed me of my diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder. “You’ve got anxiety; that’s true. But you’ve got to address your childhood trauma that created and is maintaining this anxiety. Focusing solely on the anxiety would be like putting a Band-Aid on an open infected wound. It might help a bit, but it won’t last. You deserve better.”
