I recently read about a woman who had a mental disorder and was trying to come to terms with the possibility she had been abused as a child. As I read I became angry at the arrogance of psychology. The idea that everything we feel has a psychological basis is accepted not because it’s true, but because it has been repeated until everyone was brainwashed.
While psychological theories are cute and seem to make sense, they are very hard to prove. That doesn’t mean they are wrong and have no use whatsoever, but it does mean they should be considered alongside other ideas and theories.
It is strange that, for example, when a woman is pregnant or menstruating we are perfectly happy to accept that those physical and hormonal changes are having an emotional effect. But the idea of a physical issue having emotional symptoms is not one which is universally accepted, and psychologists are the keenest deniers of all! Psychologists don’t like to talk about the effect for example a vitamin deficiency can have on our emotions, or how an otherwise unrelated long term health concern can cause panic attacks or depression.
We need to free ourselves from psychology and look at the whole picture. That is all I am saying.
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If you are interested in underlying physical causes of anxiety then Killing Anxiety From The Roots will interest you.