Anxiety+Disorders+Causes

=Causes and Self-Diagnosis =

What is the underlying basis for Anxiety Disorders?
 The reasons for Anxiety Disorders are mostly not indentifiable. Sometimes, Anxiety Disorders can be inheritated from parents due to genetics, personality, unpleasant childhood experiences or it can come later due to a stressful even such as the loss of a parent.

Genetics: Research has shown that if one of the two identical twins has anxiety disorders, the other one is mostly likly going to get anxiety disorder and this leads to the conclusion that it might be a part of the genes that triggers anxiety disorder.

Childhood Experiences: Durign childhood, unpleasant experiences can lead to the developement of anxiety disorder. For example, if a kid experiences seperation with their parents, they might have Seperation Anxiety Disorder later in life.

Personality: If a person tends to have low self-esteem, they can develope anxiety disorders in which they lose confidence about themselves. However, anxiety disorders are sometimes the reason that leads to low self-esteem as the person grows up.

Stressful Event: In a person's life, there can be events that can cause mental scars in the his/her memory. For example, if a student loses his/her parent in a car accident, that can impact their mind greatly and this can lead to the development of an anxiety disorder.

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 -Are you constantly feeling worried or tense?  -Have you ever thought that there is always somebody around the corner looking at you? -Do you know that somethings is unreal but you are still afraid of it? -Do you still believe that there is a monster under your bed drooling, waiting to eat you alive?  -Are you fears interfering with your life? -Are you unable to fall asleep with the light closed because you are afraid of the darkness? -Have you ever had suddening panic attacks? -Have you ever had unexpected panic attacks while doing common daily rutines? -Have you been avoiding things because you are afraid of them? -Do you still refuse to sleep alone because you are afraid of the dark?

//For more detailed information on specific symptoms, click [|HERE].//  If any of these symptoms seem to apply to you, you **might** have an anxiety disorder. To find out more about the different kinds of Anxiety Disorders, please go ahead and read the next section on "Common Types of Anxiety Disorders."

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