>>1379068

Define real.

Also anxiety is a physiological reaction, not a behavior, so your picture is retarded.

>>1379068
Your pic is a behavioral paradigm, so it's literally an opinion.

And of course they're real (without going into existentialism) as they can be measured through brain chemicals and activities.

However, there's a recent emphasis on culture in psych, so what's a real problem in one society is not in another.

>>1379068
Depends what you mean by "real."
This is a huge problem in both psychiatry and philosophy of the mind, alongside the lack of concrete definitions of what we mean by "mental" and "disorder."
The only thing everyone seems to agree on at the moment is that the current method based on the DSM is arbitrary crap.

>>1379068
Throw a live fish on the ground and then blame it's dying on a chemical imbalance.

In that sense it's real.

>>1379068
that much psychology has been done badly doesn't mean the kind of thing suggested in your picture is real either