Affective Reactivity: A Transdiagnostic Risk Factor?
Psychology Today | 03.10.2026 23:38
It is now well accepted among psychologists and clinical researchers that the official categories we use to diagnose mental disorders, those familiar labels such as major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, etc., are inadequate in that they do not “carve nature at the joints.” In other words, our current categories are not discrete but highly overlapping, so that many disorders share diagnostic features and symptoms.
