Metaphysical anxiety? Sounds like something Deepak Chopra will diagnose someone with. A problem with modern psychology, in my opinion, is that it compartmentalizes everyone in this box of sorts, where everyone according to them has something. The human conundrum implies a form of suffering embedded in it, but psychologists try to neurotically exploit everyone through their narrow diagnostic parameters that shallowly interpret the human condition. Now, there are good psychologists out there, but psychology is very different than all the other sciences, it is not as scientifically rigorous simply because there is still little we know of the mind and brain chemistry, even though there are breakthroughs every day. Yet, even then this does not imply that this newfound knowledge is being utilized in the field. All that said I think psychologists do some good work, to some extent, but do project their insecurities as a field into their patients by coming up with absurd diagnoses for patients, ensuring everyone that comes to their office is afflicted with something. Point is, a second opinion is a good consideration.
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