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Is anxiety inherited, what do you think? For me I do not believe so. I believe some of us are born into a lineage where there's anxiety and panic attacks. However that does not indicate that we will have anxiety.
Speaking from my individual own realizing my Mother had anxiety and I'm not a 100% certain but I think my Dad was a pretty nervous man. So yes it was in my family. But I have 4 siblings and not any of them suffer from anxiety or panic attacks. I am additionally a Sagittarius and it seems as if we're vulnerable to be anxious people. So this may also be a helping factor.
When I had my first session of anxiety I did ask my Doctor the question 'is anxiety inherited'?, he wasn't convinced. So far as he was anxious there is no justification either way. So I think there's 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 consider that we can pick up on the behaviours of those closest to us when we're growing up. So I feel we can have learnt behaviour. Which is anything fully dissimilar to anxiety?
As children we may have observed someone near to us having an anxiety attack and not truly understood what was happening. But what we would of picked up, was the fright they where feeling. And if it was a close relative who was acting afraid, then we'd actually be frightened, as we looked to them to keep us protected. But we wouldn't of understood there fear.
So there may be an argument for anxiety being a learnt behavior, but as for the question 'is anxiety inherited'?, I am not sure. Although it could be truly useful at times to know where my anxiety originated from. And yes when I was feeling down it may of been quite helpful to have anyone to blame and be angry with. But again that's only part of the course, well it was for me. The not knowing or understanding was actually frightening. It would of been helpful for me to have the physician say, yes its inherited, at least then I might of least understood my anxiety better.