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Originally Posted by Tracy9
It is very frustrating when medical professionals dismiss symptoms of any disease as anxiety or depression if they aren't doing all they can do to find another cause. However they are actual medical diseases too, and since your physical symptoms do fit anxiety, it was just one other thing to mention and check off the list.
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One of the problems is that there are no objective tests to diagnose psychiatric diseases and as I have said elsewhere this creates a very dangerous black hole in the border of neurology and psychiatry.
There is no way to check psychiatric diagnoses off the list. So, once someone considers them it is very hard to show that they do not exist. How can you show that your low mood is a normal response to a devastating illness and not "depression"? In the past it was OK to mourn a loved one, now even that is not legitimate.
As you also say, many serious disease may appear like anxiety so putting this diagnosis high on the list can be very dangerous, as it puts everyone at ease that they know what is wrong with the patient, which can easily lead to serious and even fatal errors.