Is anxiety something you are born with?
Anonymous
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Apr 3, 2016
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Anxiety is something you are not born with, you can get it throughout your life. Most people get it when they are teenagers.
Anonymous
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Apr 3, 2016
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maybe? i'm sure its something that you develop though but of course you could develop it at a young age and therefore it becoming something so normal to yourself.
nlpinspiration
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Apr 6, 2016
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Yes, we are all born with anxiety. The anxiety prevents from unwanted situations. Sometimes anxiety is based on our irrelevant thought, and than it has bad influence on our behavior
dogswinenetflix
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Apr 12, 2016
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Anxiety is a condition that you can be genetically predisposed to, but depending on your environment as you grow up, you can develop it or not. You may develop anxiety at a young age if you experience trauma such as abuse or bullying (these are examples and are not limited to that). But even if it is not something you are genetically predisposed to, you can still develop anxiety if exposed to enough trauma, especially if it all happens in a short amount of time!
Anonymous
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May 24, 2016
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I think not, Anxiety can be caused by either physical or psychological reasons. and it can also can be caused from fear. I, personally, don't think that anyone was born with it. I think it comes when you get older and older and start worrying about life, I also think that every time you get older it comes more. But that doesn't mean that you can't beat it.
Alden94
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Jun 7, 2016
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I don't think anxiety is something you're born with. I've always been nervous but it's been a lot worse since I've grown up
Skylarsanders
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Jul 26, 2016
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For some it is, but for others, it develops with emotional stress. There's different types of anxiety
LittleMissJoy
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Nov 27, 2017
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No. We are born with only 2 fears which are the fear of loud noises and falling. Everything else we develop throughout our lives and, unfortunately anxiety is something that is a result due to our fears.
Anonymous
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Jul 3, 2018
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Anxiety can run in families, and it can be influenced by your environment. Are you feeling anxious about something that you would like to talk about? I"m here to listen.
dxphne
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Mar 26, 2019
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I feel like it is something that you are born with, in some way. I kind of feel like I've always been more nervous about things than most people, however I feel like most of the time it takes a hard experience to make it worse enough to really be labeled as anxiety. For example, as a child I've always had issues with going to school and doing things or even just going places alone/without my parents. As a teen I struggeled with bullying at school, this made it even harder to go to school and it made me even more insecure and more scared to do things alone or without my parents. The bullying made it a lot worse, but the problem has kind of always been there.
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