Posts Tagged ‘Is anxiety inherited’

How to treat anxiety?  Well that in truth depends on a number of factors such as your background, your beliefs and your mindset.
There are heaps of ways out there to remedy anxiety; it depends genuinely on which route you want to take to act toward your anxiety.

  Before I go any further I need to say that it is in fact significant for you to take the best route for yourself.  The basis I say this is, that friends and family have there own belief on what is best for you, and because you can feel fairly low with anxiety you may go along with what they say, and not with what is best for you.
I have had individuals say to me that because of relations pressure they have not consulted a medical doctor for dread of a label and what other folks can say.

Everyone has there own attitude on how to take care of anxiety, but the only important opinion is yours and how you want to treat your anxiety.

As I said beforehand how to treat anxiety very much depends on you and the direction you need to take.

You may choose to go to your doctor and get some drug to help be in charge of your anxiety.  That’s okay.  The only things I will voice from my own personal understanding are.  To start with I got really uneasy about having to take tablets, which may sound stupid but for me having to take a drug caused me real anxiety.  Secondly, trying to find the right pills to suit me took quite a few months.  Thirdly, the side-effects can be quite horrible.

The most central thing about taking drug is that it does not heal your anxiety, it only masks it.  If that’s satisfactory for you then evidently medication is the way for you to go.  Though you could take into account taking tablets along side counselling, or joining a community chiefly set up for anxiety suffers.

You may decide to treat your anxiety with natural remedies, such as Camomile, Passion flower, Valerian, Kava.  To term, but a a small amount of.  The most significant thing is to get proficient advice on any natural remedy you are considering taking.  And make sure if you are on any other medicine that they are compatible.

The only way to over come anxiety is to face it and take control of it.  Anxiety is a fear that has gotten out of control.  The more you focus on it, the stronger it becomes.  I can tell you that this declaration is very true.  I can also say that at times it feels like your complete mind has been taken over by fretful thoughts, which of course leads to many physical bodily reactions, which are very creepy.

The best way to treat anxiety is to face it, beat it and get your life back on track.  I have done it, so you can do it.

Here are 8 short documentary’s on anxiety,depression, and stress, in video number 8 he talks about Is Anxiety Inherited, do we have an anxiety gene?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Is Anxiety Inherited, he is not saying a definite no to this, but what i feel he is saying is, that the behaviour is learnt.

It has been a known information for many years that anxious parents can pass anxiety disorders on to their children.  Although this truth is well known, no one is prepared to say yes to this question "is anxiety inherited”.

But now, a new study by the scientists at Johns Hopkins Children’s Centre, came up with the conclusion that a family-based program where parents and children are being treated jointly, can reduce the symptoms and risks of anxiety amongst these children.

Each person can get fretful from time to time, but when the crisis starts taking over one’s life, the condition is then called anxiety disorder. It can be exceedingly stressful and inhibit people from living their lives fully. Some individuals with anxiety disorder may also have phobias and develop panic attacks.

For the study purposes, the Hopkins investigators looked at 40 children with the ages between 7 and 12 years. The children were not diagnosed with anxiety disorder themselves but all of them had at least one parent who was diagnosed with the condition.  What other proof do we really need to answer the question "is anxiety inherited".

Researchers randomly split the participants into two groups, with 20 of the children and their families taking part in an 8-week cognitive behavioural therapy program, while the other 20 were put on a waiting list and did not receive any treatment during the period of the study, but were offered therapy one year later.

The CBT program, which consisted of one-hour-long weekly sessions, was focusing on an development of problem-solving skills, instruction about anxiety disorder, as well as helped parents identify and change behaviours alleged to contribute to anxiety in the children.

The chief researcher of the study, Dr. Golda Ginsburg, PH.D., a child psychologist at Hopkins Children’s Centre and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said that according to the records gathered by the experts, the children of parents with an anxiety disorder are up to seven times more likely to develop the disorder themselves, and up to 65 per cent of kids who live with an anxious parent meet the criteria for anxiety disorder.

The results of the trial revealed that within a period of 12 months, 30 per cent of the children who did not participate in the program, had developed an anxiety disorder, compared to none of the children who were enrolled in the family based therapy. A 40 per cent decrease in anxiety symptoms in the year after the therapy program were independently reported by parents along with investigators who analyzed the behaviour of the kids and their parents. There was no fall of anxiety symptoms observed among children on the waiting list.

The parental behaviours adapted with therapy program included overprotection, excessive criticism and excessive expression of fear and anxiety in front of the kids. The program targeted childhood risk factors such as avoiding anxiety-provoking situations and anxious thoughts.

According to a recent editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, it is deterrence and not treatment, of childhood anxiety, that is of a primary importance, because anxiety disorders affect one in every 5 children in the United States, but very often are left unrecognized. If not addressed in time, the trouble can lead to depression, substance abuse and poor academic performance throughout childhood years and way into adulthood.

Results of the study will be published in the June issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. The study was funded by the US government’s National Institute of Mental Health.  So "is anxiety inherited", yes.  Can we change the pattern of behaviour yes!

Could it assist a few of us if we had the answer to this question “is anxiety inherited”?

I’m not positive.  It may help us come to terms with the fact that we suffer with anxiety.

Have you looked at your family history, parents, grandparents and maybe even further back?  Or have you grown up with a family member suffering from anxiety?

My mother suffered fairly badly with anxiety, chiefly when she was going all through the change.

  Her anxiety triggered her to become house bound, resulting in her leaving her job on health grounds.

I don’t recollect looking back at my younger days my mum suffering with anxiety.  But she did.  Just because I cannot recall it.  It does not denote that I did not pick up on it.

The predicament for me is, that since she  was suffering with anxiety, I may well of picked up that learnt behaviour, without truly knowing what it was.

So back to the big question “is anxiety inherited”, well it may not of been in my actual genes, but I could of learnt the anxiety behaviour from my mum.

I have had some great debates with friends on this subject.

Like how come I have anxiety and my three brothers and my sister do not suffer with anxiety.  For sure that would confirm that anxiety is not inherited.  Although on the other hand I have to have learnt it from somebody?

My anxiety has been labelled as “free floating anxiety”, so I do not know what I get anxious around, but I do know I have anxiety.  So understandably I must have learnt that behaviour from somewhere.

The reason this is so key to me is, I if I learnt this behaviour, then I can work on learning a fresh way of becoming.  I can work on the reality that this is the behaviour of my Mother and not me.  It was something that I picked up while I was growing up.  It does not belong to me; I borrowed it from my Mum.  I did not appreciate what I was picking up on.  But I picked up on the anxiety my mum was suffering from and stored it away ready for the right conditions to manifest in my life for it to happen and be part of my life.

For me “is anxiety inherited”, yes, as a learnt behaviour, not as something that is permanent in my life.

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

Speaking from my individual personal understanding my Mum had anxiety and I’m not a 100% sure but I think my Dad 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 sounds as if we are prone 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 concerned there was no corroboration either way.  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 pick up on the behaviours of those closest to us when we are growing up.  So I feel we can have learnt behaviour.  Which is something entirely different to anxiety?

As kids we may have witnessed someone near to us having an anxiety attack and not really understood what was going on.  But what we would of picked up, was the fright 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 argument for anxiety being a learnt behaviour, but as for the question “is anxiety inherited”, I am not certain.  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 someone 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.