@hosford42@cykonot i can't help but notice that if you have EDS, POTS, and MCAS you can easily score in the highest category on the "Beck Anxiety Inventory" even if you feel no anxiety on the emotional level. honestly i think there is some statistical invalidity lurking there - of course the group with more of the symptoms listed on the anxiety inventory will come out with a higher likelihood of anxiety. research into conditions that overlap with the physical "anxiety symptoms" should come up with a different way to assess anxiety, imo.
(next, if we want to get radical, we can discuss not categorizing all the conditions that share the physical symptoms of anxiety as "psychosomatic"....)