May 4th, 2010
Can it aid a few of us if we had the answer to this question “is anxiety inherited”? I’m not certain. It might 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, mainly when she was going through the change. Her anxiety caused her to become house bound, resulting in her leaving her job on health grounds.
I don’t remember looking back at my younger years my mum suffering with anxiety. But she did. Just because I cannot recall it. It does not insinuate that I did not pick up on it. The dilemma for me is, that since she was suffering with anxiety, I might of picked up that learnt behaviour, without really knowing what it was. Hence back to the big question “is anxiety inherited”, well it may well 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 associates on this subject matter.
Like how come I have anxiety and my three brothers and my sister do not suffer with anxiety. Certainly that would show that anxiety is not inherited. However 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 about, but I do know I have anxiety.
So understandably I must have learnt that behaviour from somewhere. The reason this is so significant 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 situation 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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I have the two girls, and the older one just falls right asleep like Gavin and the younger cannot sleep and has horrible nightmares, leading to fear of nightmares, which leads to fear of going to sleep. I, too, refuse to drug them, either of them, for anything short of a really bad cough. Absolutely not.
I think Sully's just too old for what I do, which is rubbing foreheads at night and “giving them dreams”, which they then “lock” in, but pretending I'm using my hand to suck out the nightmares. It works sometimes because I've done it since they were babies, but I think Sully's WAAAYYY to old for that crap.
One essential thing with stress I've found is learning how to control your muscles and how tense they are, as well as being able (not easy, I'm still working on this one…) to stall a panic attack by recognizing early symptoms. Feeling a tight chest and shallow breathing while anxiety rises are usually the start of one, and just realizing what it is can change a LOT. Then forcing yourself to take really deep breaths and such. I'm not big on self-help books AT ALL, but I do have one that's really good with anxiety stuff, and from a skeptic like me, that's saying something. This is called “The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook” by Edmund J. Bourne, PhD, and I just got mine at Borders after my one of 2 sessions with a therapist. It works though, and it actually goes through things that may stem from childhood (not abuse or that stuff, but anxiety and stress), as well as stress and panic disorder in adults and kids.
It's rare for me to recommend any self-help book or even to buy one, since my last self-help book was a textbook on Latin. Still, if Sully's having panic problems, this may help a lot and can really show how deep your own go. Plus, well, learning how to breathe yourself out of panic attacks, that right there is a big plus. You could probably look a lot about panic attacks online too. That's just one option I've tried that helped.
I like the aromatherapy idea too though, that can really be a help. I hope the little guy gets better! Poor thing! My kids are really, really creative too, and this seems to add to these problems somehow, which is also an odd phenomenon. Best of luck with Sully, I know how heart-wrenching it is seeing them panic and have nightmares and not being able to stop it.
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