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Anxiety disorders in poor moms likely to result from poverty, not mental illness, study suggests

July 20, 2012 by

Poor mothers are more likely to be classified as having the mental illness known as generalized anxiety disorder because they live in poverty -- not because they are suffering from a psychiatric disorder, according to researchers.

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