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What Parents Need to Know About Anxiety (with Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart)

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

CHAPTER

Understanding the Influences on Anxiety Development

Exploring the multifaceted factors contributing to anxiety development, encompassing genetics, learned behaviors, and individual predispositions, with personal anecdotes highlighting familial influences and personality traits.

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Where you know, maybe like you said, it's the one time being afraid when they see that animal or spider or whatever. But when it goes from that to now I'm checking every corner and doing very unreasonable things around this.
Speaker 1
It's a variety of things. There's a hereditary factor. So there's a lot of people that it's just in your family where a lot of people when I'm talking to them and doing an intake they'll say, yeah, you know, anxiety runs in my family. My mom was a warrior. My grandma was a warrior and her grandma was a warrior. And so it's kind of like this hereditary factor. There's a genetic component to it. But there's also a learned component as well too, where if you have a parent who's a very anxious person and they act in anxious ways, then if you're around them, then you are going to be more likely to be anxious as well. When I was growing up, for example, my mom was hugely afraid of frogs. And I grew up on an island. So I grew up in the Virgin Islands and we're surrounded by water and she loved plants. So we had plants lining the entry to our front door and where do frogs hang out in moist plants. So there would be these huge frogs over our doorway. And that's the only way to get in the house. And so then she would be like, okay, well, I guess we can't go inside the house. And I'm like, so what are we supposed to do? So that I started becoming hyper vigilant and scanning all the time because then I'm like, oh, well, what if there's a frog? Because the frogs on the island are huge. They're huge. So then it kind of became this learned fear of frogs because she was so worried. I picked up on it from her. What I have been afraid of frogs if she hadn't been, maybe, maybe not. It can also be a learned factor because anxiety is not something that we just have. It's something that can be learned definitely. But then there's another piece of it, which is there's a predisposition factor where there are some personalities and temperaments that are predisposed or more likely to have anxiety or have an anxiety disorder because they're more sensitive or they're more observant or they're very in tune with their environment. And there's a lot of evidence that shows that individuals who are more intelligent even are more likely to be anxious because they have very divergent ways of thinking. They're kind of outside the box kind of thinkers. So they're always thinking of what could possibly go wrong anyway. And that's just how they normally think about
Speaker 2
things.

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