Is Anxiety Inherited, what do you feel? For me I do not think so. I think a few of us are born into a family where there is anxiety and panic attacks. Although that does not imply that we will have anxiety.
Talking from my individual personal understanding my Mum had anxiety and I am not 100% sure but I think my Dad was a pretty apprehensive guy. So yes it was in my family. But i have four siblings and none of them suffer from anxiety or panic attacks.
I am additionally a Sagittarius and it appears that we are prone to be anxious people. So this could also be a contributing factor. When I had my first bout of anxiety I did ask my Doctor the question is anxiety inherited, he was not certain. As far as he was concerned there was no confirmation either way. So I feel there is no definitive answer to the question is anxiety inherited.
I truly consider that there is no such thing as an anxiety gene within us. I do believe that we can pick up on the behaviours of those close to us when we are growing up.
So I believe we can have learnt behaviour. That is something entirely different to anxiety? As children we may have witnessed someone familiar to us having an anxiety attack and not actually understood what was going on. But what we would of picked up, was the fright they where feeling. And if it was a parent who was acting fearful, then we would really be anxious, as we looked to them to keep us out of harm’s way. But we would not of understood there fear. Thus there may be an argument for anxiety being a learnt behaviour, but as for the question is anxiety inherited, I am not persuaded. Although it would be really useful at times to know where my anxiety came from. And yes when i was feeling down it might of been quite helpful to have somebody to blame and be angry with. But again thats just part of the process, well it was for me.
The not knowing or understanding was really frightening. It would of been beneficial for me to have the doctor say, yes its inherited,at least then i might of least understood my anxiety better. What do you believe? Please leave a sensible comment to the question is anxiety inherited. I would really value your input.
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