In response to the country’s anxiety epidemic, an influential panel of doctors appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently published a new set of guidelines. All adults, they recommended, should now be screened for anxiety by their primary care physicians. As the founder of a large clinical practice focused on anxiety, I stand to benefit from increased referrals. And yet, I’ve been lying in bed at night with growing worries that this policy will compound our anxiety epidemic.
