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It used to be called stress and in some cases the ill effects were referred to as psychosomatic. In the last twenty-five years and more so in the last fifteen years physicians, mental health care professionals and ordinary people have come to understand that anxiety disorders exist and negatively impact people on a broad scale.

We live in an anxious world. Many of us grew up in anxious homes and an anxious community. Boomer children were faced with fearful situations that were in our face because of television, radio, and then the internet. There were no buffers to shield us from the direct onslaught. School, jobs, every aspect of life became seed beds for stress, fear, and anxious situations. Those levels of anxiety affected our jobs, relationships, and daily lives. Those conditions are if anything worse for current generations. The Anxiety Disorders Association of America provide these statistics:

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