Is anxiety inherited, what do you think? For me I do not believe so. I believe a few of us are born into a family where there's anxiety and panic attacks. But that doesn't point to that we will have anxiety.

Talking from my individual own realizing my Mother had anxiety and I'm not a 100% certain but I think my Father was a quite nervous guy. So yes it was in my family. But I've four siblings and not any of them undergo anxiety or panic attacks. I'm additionally a Sagittarius and it seems as if we're prone to be anxious people. So this may also be a helping factor.

When I had my first session of anxiety I did ask my Physician the question 'is anxiety inherited'?, he was not certain. As far as he was worried there is no corroboration anyway. So I consider there is no ultimate answer to the question 'is anxiety inherited'?.

I truly think that there's no such thing as an anxiety gene within us. I do think that we can pick up on the behaviours of those closest to us when we're growing up. So I feel we can have learnt behaviour. Which is something entirely dissimilar to anxiety?

As kids we might have witnessed someone near to us having an anxiety attack and not truly realized what was going on. But what we would of picked up, was the fright they where feeling. And if it was a close relative who was acting afraid, then we might really be terrified, as we looked to them to keep us protected. But we would not of realized there fear.

So there may be an issue for anxiety being a learnt behavior, but as for the question 'is anxiety inherited'?, I'm not sure. Although it could be truly beneficial at times to know where my anxiety came from. And yes when I was feeling down it may of been quite helpful to have anyone to blame and be angry with. But again that's just part of the course, well it was for me. The not knowing or understanding was really frightening. It would of been helpful for me to have the physician say, yes its inherited, at least then I might of least realized my anxiety better.