In my own personal experience, my anxiety started around seven years ago and I was experiencing a lot of deaths in my life. So I think that might of triggered my anxiety. My doctor too has told me it could be genetics. I have a lot of family members that also have anxiety.

My mother, and several family members have terrible anxiety. I do believe part of it is genetic, and also from watching my Mom being nervous, worried, anxious... all the time, rubbed off on me ever since I was a small child. Thinking that the world must be a dangerous place, since my Mom seems to act like it is.

So, I think I had the tendency to become anxious.

However, my anxiety started from a physical accident in my late 20's. That's when it really got bad, and continues every day, more than 20 years later.

Hi GirlinCalif,
It's nice to hear from you. Hope all is well.
I can relate to family having anxiety. My mom has it and my brother and sister and aunts and uncles. It's kinda of all over our family.

Sorry to hear about your accident. Sure that would trigger your anxiety too. It's tough to have to go through it for the last 2o years. Do you see a therapist or take anything for it?

Can you have a life without having been through something traumatic? Birth, itself, is traumatic and the traumas/challenges just keep on coming for most of us.

Some of the most anxious/depressed people I know are folks who have never experienced extra-ordinary trauma and are terrified of the possibility. They make safety/security look like one of the meanest prisons ever devised.

Hi Italianmomma, Yes, I have taken medication for it for over 20 years, and I do therapy, too. It's still a daily struggle, though. Take care, thanks for the questions, and happy holidays to you and yours.

Hi Arfie,
Yes I think everyone in their life time has had some kinda of trauma that they have gone through.

It is a scary experience and for people that have never experienced it, I wouldn't wish it upon anybody.

It is something that sticks with you for as long as you have gone through the traumatic event. I guess you can say that you don't forget it. You live with it for the rest of your life. For me I have a lot of anxiety through family. And experiencing death was too much for me to handle. That's kinda of when my anxiety started. It has gotten better. Death is not easy for anyone to deal with.

Thank you for your comment. Italianmomma4ever

Hi GirlinCalif,
I'm glad you are seeing a therapist and medication is helping as much as it can. Sorry that you still struggle. It is a on going thing that we all struggle with that have anxiety. Just take one day at a time and do the best you can. Take care and Happy Holidays.

I have had OCD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder all my life. I believe it was
partly genetic. Never had real trauma. My grandmother had mental
breakdowns off and on her whole adult life. My mother got OCD and anxiety
from her mother. And passed it to me.

Hi Tired,
It sounds like your OCD and GAD is genetic.
I too have a mom that had anxiety along with my siblings. So I think it's something that was passed along to me too.

Sorry that you have had to deal with it your whole life.
Do you see a therapist? They can help you through what your experiencing. Here's to healing. You take good care. And thank you for your comment. Italianmomma4ever

Genetic for me.

Trauma just added sides and came with no extra charge.

Hi Mid,
I would have to agree with you genetic for me.
And then some trauma from deaths topped it off..

I like how you described trauma.

No extra charge here either. Ugh.

Thanks Mid for the great comment.

Here's to helping each other with these interesting discussions!

Absolutely. I hope it helps everyone out.
Happy Healing!!!!

I also think it's important to stick with the topic of Anxiety. It is a Anxiety Support Group.

I don’t think there is any one answer fits all. I’m more fascinated by that people that show resilience after unimaginable horrors like auschwitz and just get on with it. Whatever it is they’ve got I want some too.