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How to treat anxiety?  Well that really depends on a number of factors such as your background, your beliefs and your mindset.
There are plenty of ways out there to heal anxiety; it depends really on which method you want to take to act toward your anxiety.

  Before I go any further I want to say that it is in fact important for you to take the best route for yourself.  The basis I say this is, that friends and family have there own outlook 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 people say to me that because of relatives pressure they have not consulted a doctor for panic of a label and what other folks will say.

Each person has there own belief on how to treat anxiety, but the only chief opinion is yours and how you want to treat your anxiety.

As I said previously how to treat anxiety very much depends on you and the route you desire to take.

You may require to go to your doctor and get some drug to help manage your anxiety.  That’s okay.  The only things I will voice from my own personal experience are.  First of all I got really nervous about having to take medication, which may sound mad but for me having to take a pill caused me real anxiety.  Secondly, trying to find the right drugs to suit me took quite a few months.  Thirdly, the side-effects can be quite horrid.

The most main thing about taking pills is that it does not cure your anxiety, it only masks it.  If that’s tolerable for you then obviously medicine is the way for you to go.  Even though you could take into account taking medication along side counselling, or joining a community especially set up for anxiety suffers.

You may make a decision to treat your anxiety with natural remedies, such as Camomile, Passion flower, Valerian, Kava.  To label, but a a small number of.  The most vital thing is to get trained advice on any natural remedy you are considering taking.  And make sure if you are on any other drug that they are compatible.

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

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.

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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.

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It has been a known truth 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 fresh 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 together, can reduce the symptoms and risks of anxiety amid these children.

Every person can get nervous from time to time, but when the difficulty starts taking over one’s life, the state is then called anxiety disorder. It can be exceptionally stressful and prevent 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 from 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 improvement of problem-solving skills, instruction about anxiety disorder, as well as helped parents recognize and change behaviours thought 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 experiment 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 decline of anxiety symptoms observed among children on the waiting list.

The parental behaviours modified 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 major 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 dilemma 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!

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Would it assist some of us if we had the key 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 quite badly with anxiety, particularly 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 recall looking back at my younger days my mum suffering with anxiety. But she did.  Just because I do not recall it.  It does not indicate that I did not pick up on it.

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

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

I have had some huge debates with associates 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 show 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 don’t know what I become anxious concerning, but I do know I have anxiety.  So rationally I must have learnt that behaviour from somewhere.

The reason this is so key to me is, if I learnt this behaviour, then I can work on learning a new way of being.  I can work on the information 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 recognize 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 circumstances to manifest in my life for it to materialize 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.

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Is anxiety inherited, what do you consider?  For me I do not think 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.

Talking from my individual personal encounter my Mum had anxiety and I’m not a 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 also a Sagittarius and it seems that we are prone to be anxious people.  Therefore this could also be a contributing factor.

As soon as I had my first attack 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 proof either way.  So I assume there is no definitive answer to the question “is anxiety inherited”.

I truly think that there is no such thing as an anxiety gene within us.  I do think that we can pick up on the behaviours of those closest to us when we are growing up.  So I think we can have learnt behaviour.  That is something absolutely different to anxiety?

As kids we may have witnessed someone near to us having an anxiety attack and not in fact understood what was going on.  But what we will of picked up, was the fright they where feeling.  And if it was a close relative who was acting scared, then we would really be frightened, as we looked to them to keep us safe and sound.  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 convinced.  Although it would be really advantageous at times to know where my anxiety came from.  And yes when i was feeling down it could of been quite useful to have somebody to blame and be angry with.  But again that’s 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 consider?  Please leave a sensible comment to the question “is anxiety inherited”.  I would really value your input.

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