Before you know more about today's symptoms, how should the prior anxiety history affect your working interpretation?

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It should remain the leading explanation because it has previously accounted for similar symptoms.

It should make anxiety more plausible, but today's symptoms still need to establish whether that explanation fits.

It should be set aside initially so the current symptoms can be evaluated without influence from the prior diagnosis.

It should carry little weight unless today's symptoms are nearly identical to the previously documented episodes.

Maintain the working interpretation until objective testing supports an alternative explanation.

Keep anxiety in the differential, but consider other explanations for the new symptom pattern.

Substantially reduce the weight of the prior explanation because the current symptom pattern no longer fits it well.

Keep anxiety as the leading explanation because similar symptoms were previously attributed to it.