Nice article, I loved it, and glad scientists, doctors and researchers are making progress in understanding anxiety and mental disorders in general.

I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD and severe anxiety (after years fighting anxiety and depression, the last one was gone, but the first wasn’t until 2019), all my family has anxiety and I lost 2 aunts for depression and anxiety. With my diagnostic I discovered that all my anxiety came from my ADHD, mainly the hiperactivity side (that was what the neuropsychologist and the psychiatrist said), my body has energy to waste but I’m obligated to stand still (in meetings for example), so my anxiety kicks in and I start sweating and feeling very uncomfortable, my anxiety only stops when I start wasting the energy with the things my brain wants to focus in, I tried to control anxiety with therapy, it didn’t worked, I have been in anxiety medication but it didn’t helped, but when I switched to ADHD medication, my anxiety stopped completely, it was a year ago, my life without anxiety is incomparable, totally different, way better than before.

Sometimes we just need the right diagnostic and the right treatment, other times we don’t, everyone is different, and our brain is very complex, we are far from understanding it well, but we are making a good job.