Why I Refuse to Call Anxiety a Disorder
There used to be this girl on my university course who claimed she had anxiety. One time we had to participate in quite a big group project together and every time she could not do something that was required for the project, she would use her anxiety as an excuse and say she had written confirmation of it from an official source of sorts. Like a therapist or something. It was some kind of support system in the university put in place to help out people who had all kinds of learning difficulties and if they signed up for it, they got excused from tasks, got deadline extensions and general studying help, etc. I had never heard of such support plans before. I know it exists for a good reason and ultimately really does benefit people who have something, like dyslexia for example, but the fact that that girl always used her anxiety as an excuse to not do coursework and moan about it aloud made me pissed off on several occasions. Don't call me an insensitive ass yet, and read my following explanation behind my thoughts before.