Anxiety is a Signal, Not a Diagnosis
Is anxiety a real diagnosis — or just a label doctors give when they stop looking?
This is a new episode of Diagnose This. Dr. Z is joined by Dr. Megan Lyons, functional medicine practitioner and doctor of clinical nutrition, to talk about one of the most over-diagnosed and under-investigated conditions in medicine.
Dr. Lyons was told she had anxiety when she was young. Her parents framed it like this: it's just a spot on your leg that needs to be wiped off. Here's the medication. She took it for a while. And deep down she knew the whole time — it wasn't a spot on her leg. It was her body…
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