Ambition as an anxiety disorder
I don’t really agree with the premise here. Some of this boils down to defining terms. What is anxiety and what is ambition?<p>But on a high level, I’d argue anxiety and ambition are orthogonal.<p>You can have ambition without having unhealthy levels of anxiety about it. Certainly not to the point of a disorder.<p>Anxiety can push people to want to succeed. But is that the same as “ambition”?<p>Where this falls apart is the article implies that medication for anxiety disorders is harmful to humanity as a whole.<p>I have pretty severe anxiety and none of it helps me. It cripples me. There are things I want to accomplish in my life. I’m trying pretty hard for them, but managing a severe mental illness makes progress towards those goals slow.<p>Somehow I manage to wake up every day and believe today can be better than yesterday. If not today, then there’s always tomorrow. This never makes me anxious, this brings me relief.