What do you think about Anxiety Disorders?

Do you think they are real illnesses? Or just a psychological ‘hurdle’ as it were – something that just occurs in some of us due to childhood experiences or unknown reasons?

Last year, I was diagnosed with my anxiety disorder (a combination between general and social), and I can tell you that in my case, it was absolutely genetic. I’ve had an easy childhood with only a few bumps in the road, caring parents, and a stable home life. I’ve always been a worrier, but when I hit adolescence, the worries became much more intense.

The way it was explained to me is that I was born with a gene that made me more susceptible to anxiety than most (anxiety runs on both sides of my families). When I started becoming more anxious in eighth grade, three things had happened. One, I’d moved across the country; two, I switched schools for the second time in eighth grade (after already switching schools as a result of moving in seventh); and three, adolescence began to hit harder as I became a teenager. This stress became more than the normal stress and worries I’d experienced before and the anxiety gene I’d been born with was triggered. My brain began to lock on feelings of anxiety, like a broken record, and refused to process like more brains.

As for “cures”-I had therapy and medication. I will be honest and say that for me, the medication definitely helped; at the point, I was so anxious that it was difficult for me to reason that my behavior was irrational. I knew instinctively that if I failed one test it wouldn’t mess up my grade for the year, but I had trouble really believing it, and instead, the circle of anxiety eluded me. After a combination of medicine and really deciding to face the new situations I avoided, I started to feel better. Even though my diagnosis was less than year ago, I can’t tell you how much better I feel since. While there are no doubt times I feel anxious, I hardly think about it anymore. I simply take my medication, take deep breaths in uncomfortable situations, and go about my daily way. I am still more anxious than others, but the fear hasn’t run so deeply that I feel like I’m living with a constant disorder or feel as depressed about myself and my life as I did before.

As for other anxiety disorders, something like post traumatic stress is triggered by outside life experience, but I do believe most other anxiety disorders (take, for instance, OCD) is genetic. Life experience often does trigger them, but these people were simply more susceptible to anxiety than others.

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