Take on board all the theories. But given no definitive causes, diagnoses or treatments have been found yet, why not see this as an opportunity? An opportunity to define anxiety as something other than a problem or disorder that has to be fixed as such. U.K. Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman, who dedicates his column inches to questioning self-help culture, asks whether our focusing so heavily on defining the problem tacitly creates the problem, namely that we’re broken and require fixing. “Perhaps the problem, sometimes, is the notion that there’s a problem.”
