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Horwitz and wakefield have irrefutable evidence as well as significant common sense logic that most anxieties phobias ptsd and obsessionscompulsions as defined by the dsm are really normative expectable reactions that should not be labeled as disordered

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Horwitz and wakefield note that todays anxieties are mismatched with todays environment

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Many natural fears are not grounded in responses to any current environmental danger but are manifestations of ancestral fear mechanisms

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Among other complaints the authors note that the studies fail to take into consideration the context of a persons anxiety

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Calling half the population of a major metropolitan area mentally disordered after a natural disaster based on such feelings is inconsistent with any sensible concept of mental disorder

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This may have resulted because we were raised by parents who were insecure and emotionally unstable causing us to fail to develop strong selfworth

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Consequently when we go out into the world we search for social acceptance because we lack internal selfacceptance