&gt; I actually addressed it at the end of the post I suspect you didn&#x27;t read.<p>Are all medical professionals (which I presume you are) this condescending, or just the ones on this thread?<p>&gt; Anxiety is well known for significantly reducing the threshold for attention to stimulus: someone having an anxiety attack can feel things without somatic prompt, or they can feel something horrible with an underlying somatic prompt that, if they weren&#x27;t having an anxiety attack, they&#x27;d never have even noticed.<p>Right.  So how do you know that this isn&#x27;t the result of a real physical stimulus that manifests primarily in anxious people because they are more sensitive to that stimulus?<p>How do you know that anxiety&#x2F;depression are the &quot;underlying issue&quot;, and not merely something that surfaces&#x2F;amplifies the true underlying issue?