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Re:Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real? If Not, Why Are People Killi... by haberman on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:56PM (#11651733)
> I actually addressed it at the end of the post I suspect you didn't read.

Are all medical professionals (which I presume you are) this condescending, or just the ones on this thread?

> Anxiety is well known for significantly reducing the threshold for attention to stimulus: someone having an anxiety attack can feel things without somatic prompt, or they can feel something horrible with an underlying somatic prompt that, if they weren't having an anxiety attack, they'd never have even noticed.

Right. So how do you know that this isn't the result of a real physical stimulus that manifests primarily in anxious people because they are more sensitive to that stimulus?

How do you know that anxiety/depression are the "underlying issue", and not merely something that surfaces/amplifies the true underlying issue?

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Re:Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real? If Not, Why Are People Killi... by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:59PM (#11651755)
Everyone has slight physical discomforts. If it's being magnified tremendously, the magnifier is the problem.
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