My wife was\u00a0preparing\u00a0a\u00a0tutorial \/\u00a0seminar on anxiety yesterday (she's a GP) and drew my attention to the Guidelines in Practice from NICE (the\u00a0National\u00a0Institute for Health and\u00a0Clinical\u00a0Excellence) on\u00a0general\u00a0anxiety disorders issued in September 2011.<\/p>\n
Now I summarise just a little (but not much) when I say that they suggest that to\u00a0screen for a\u00a0general\u00a0anxiety disorder you\u00a0have\u00a0to ask a patient:<\/p>\n
Over the last two weeks how often have you been\u00a0bothered\u00a0by the\u00a0following\u00a0problems:<\/p>\n
- feeling nervous anxious or on edge?<\/p>\n
- not being able to stop or control worrying?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
NICE says that if you do one of these two things on more than half of all days in a fortnight days you may well have a\u00a0general\u00a0anxiety disorder.<\/p>\n
Which by my reckoning means that right now any person\u00a0with the\u00a0slightest\u00a0interest in the economy should have a general anxiety disorder - and a pretty massive one at that.<\/p>\n
So have we at last defined Catch 22? Those without anxiety about the\u00a0economy\u00a0aren't sane and\u00a0therefore\u00a0can't be trusted and those with anxiety need treatment? Is that what NICE are saying?<\/p>\n
The one thing I would suggest is don't ask your doctor - Lansley's got all of\u00a0them\u00a0just on the edge right now......<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My wife was\u00a0preparing\u00a0a\u00a0tutorial \/\u00a0seminar on anxiety yesterday (she’s a GP) and drew my attention to the Guidelines in Practice from NICE (the\u00a0National\u00a0Institute for Health and\u00a0Clinical\u00a0Excellence)
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