UPD: I’m still listening, and I have to say, Forrest and Scott seem overall quite respectful when it comes to medical point of view, as usual, and hopefully will provide scientific point of view in the theme. However it’s still rather painful to listen to someone suffering so much and getting no help needed, whatever the help would be here. While I keep open mind, it still seems to be a mental issue to me: even as someone who never had anything more severe than anxiety, PA & bouts of depression, I can see where many of the things she felt may be coming from. For example, I often felt “free” once anxiety subsided, and quite euphoric from it, but then would go right back into it and it would be terrifying. It would feel as a battle everyday, and too would make me quite isolated, especially since any interaction even with loved ones could trigger anxiety. And for the first few years i too would fiercely deny my family was psychologically abusive, even though I now was suffering a direct result of that abuse. I was lucky enough to have some knoweledge about mental illness to get to psychiatrist, but neurologist and other doctors were quite at loss about what was happening to me and how all symptoms I listed indicated clearly panic attack. Were I more religious(or had my dad the same notions about medicine as my mom), I might have suffered more or less similiar fate to the poor girl and that is, frankly, terrifying, even though Anneliese would have had a much more severe problem than anxiety if we to explain it all by mental illness.