This investigation analyzes exactly five answers to exactly five questions asked across the decades of about 5,000 new patients. When someone claims feeling 'anxious, ' 'depressed, ' 'angry, ' or 'afraid, ' on what grounds should it be supposed that both of you are 'using the same language'? At the end of reading this essay it is hoped that a clinician - and even a non-clinician - never again will consider phrases such as "I'm anxious," "I'm depressed," "I'm angry," and "I'm afraid" to be self-explanatory.