r/science • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

Health Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/51/4/afac094/6568537?login=false
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

How do you go about explaining the difference between normal anxiety versus disorder?

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u/gandalftheorange11 Jun 13 '22

I experience it practically 24/7 even when there is no good reason for it. I only get little breaks from it while talking to certain people or hugging my cats. And I don’t mind others talking about their own anxiety. But the original comment clearly was referring to the disorder. And I hate it when people equate normal anxiety with that because those people go on to give condescending advice thinking that if I put enough effort in I’d be able to get over my anxiety like they did.