Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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salvatop 06/19/2016

I have anxiety, but my anxiety is not related to any real issues. I have no reason to be anxious. My anxiety is all genetic, I inherited it from my father. I was wondering if anyone out there on DS has the same thing??

scoobydoobydoo 06/19/2016

Funny you should write this - especially about how you inherited it from your father. I literally just wrote in my journal that I realized I inherited anxiety from my father, though not through genetics exactly.

Anyway, I understand having anxiety when there is no logical reason for it, based on what is actually happening in your life. It makes us miss out on so much more that we are capable of achieving in life.

LittleSadie 06/19/2016

I know for sure my maternal grandmother had anxiety, and my mother has clinical depression like me but you can't even tell anymore since she went on Prozac. My brother also has clinical depression and OCD, but does well on Prozac too. I don't do well on antidepressants though. Wonder if I am more like my grandmother was? I didn't really know her well, she lived in a different state than us and didn't see her often. She died when I was 10. Yes, for sure it can be genetic. I don't really have anxious thoughts either, like you. My body just seems to be doing its own thing.

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