Originally Posted by
Rennie1989
No. An anxiety disorder is a mental ill, but the effects of the illness cause the symptoms. I can control my breathing enough to start reducing my heart rate to a normal, resting rate but the anxiety is still there. If I have loose stools, caused by anxiety, then taking diarrhea tablets does not mean I've fixed the anxiety, it means I've fixed the symptom.
You can apply this to physical conditions too. I have a back condition that can (and did) give me horrendous pain. If I took my pain killers and the pain went the problem is still there, I've just made it less constricting on my day-to-day life.
It's an interesting theory, mind you.