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How can we be more sensitive towards people with anxiety disorder?
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Education & empathy: The more you are able to walk in their shoes--a wwii study showed soldiers with anxiety disorders did better than so called normal servicemen because they had a real cause for their fears (enemy) & could do something about them (shoot them).
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