It is real, and it may be from our past: an important concept

 "There is no such thing as a spontaneous anxiety or an endogenous depression.

If a patient is anxious, there is something to be scared of. 

If a patient is depressed, there is something to be depressed about. 

If it is not in consciousness, then it is unconscious. 

If it is not in the present, then it is in the past and something in the present symbolizes it."

~ Bertram Karon, PhD