I have anxiety but it was caused and is triggered by specific things, it’s fucking debilitating and exhausting at times. I work really hard to try and live my life and I’ve actively engaged to get better, but it does my head in that it’s such as overused word when people have a mild fear of stuff. Fear is not the same as anxiety, fear is a normal human reaction. The over use of the word has made people actually ill a joke, same as the seemingly interchangeable words “depressed” and “sad”.
I agree with you OP that a lot of people who are diagnosed with anxiety have other medical issues causing it, but they have just had the typical lazy diagnosis by doctors instead of proper investigation. There is still a lot of misogyny in women’s health care.