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The Toolkit for Healing Anxiety, Part 2

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Anxiety in a Family Is Not About the Kids

Is anxiety genetic? No, the short answer is no. There are mental illnesses that do seem to have a bit more of a genetic component to it like schizophrenia and bipolar. But anxiety in and of itself is not genetic. What I do think that we have genetically is a tendency to be sensitive. When you're born sensitive, you learn ways of protecting yourself.

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