When a Doctor Confronted Me About Anxiety Recovery
I wasn’t planning on talking about work. I was just hanging out with a friend and his mom, a family doctor.
At some point, she casually asked, “What do you do?” I kept it simple: “I help people overcome anxiety and panic attacks and get back to living.” She paused. Then leaned in: “Okay... how does that even work?”
So I explained it — how so many people show up at doctors’ offices terrified, convinced something’s wrong, but all their tests come back normal.
“That’s amazing... but why don’t they get better through therapy?” she asked.
And that’s when we got into it — how therapy often focuses…
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