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You're Not Shy, You Have Social Anxiety Disorder
Psychiatry has always been the weakest specialty in medicine, he says. Now psychiatrists are trying to be more like medical doctors and assign brain diseases to people. We developed about 60 little brief five item scales that you can measure all of these so-called brain disorders. But as continuums, not as dichotomies. And we're now saying people recover at speeds I would have thought impossible 10 years ago.