Is anxiety inherited, what do you think? For me I do not believe so. I believe a few of us are born into a family where there's anxiety and panic attacks. But that does not indicate that we will have anxiety.

Speaking from my individual personal understanding my Mum had anxiety and I am not a 100% certain but I think my Father was a pretty nervous guy. So yes it was in my family. But I have four 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 could also be a contributing factor.

When I had my first session of anxiety I did ask my Doctor the question 'is anxiety inherited'?, he was not convinced. As far as he was worried there is no justification anyway. So I consider 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 consider that we can get on the behaviours of those closest to us when we're growing up. So I feel we can have learnt behaviour. Which is anything entirely different to anxiety?

As kids we may have witnessed someone near to us having an anxiety attack and not really realized what was happening. But what we would of picked up, was the fear they where feeling. And if it was a close relative who was acting fearful, then we would really be frightened, as we looked to them to keep us safe. But we would not of understood there fear.

So there may be an issue for anxiety being a learnt behavior, but as for the question 'is anxiety inherited'?, I'm not sure. Although it would be really advantageous at times to know where my anxiety came 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 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.

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