Is anxiety inherited, what do you think? For me I don't think so. I believe some of us are born into a family where there is anxiety and panic attacks. However that doesn't indicate that we'll have anxiety.

Speaking from my individual personal understanding my Mum had anxiety and I am not a 100% certain but I think my Father was a pretty nervous guy. So yes it was in my family. But I have 4 siblings and not any of them suffer from anxiety or panic attacks. I'm also a Sagittarius and it seems as if we are vulnerable to be anxious people. So this could also be a contributing factor.

When I had my first session of anxiety I did ask my Doctor the question 'is anxiety inherited'?, he wasn't sure. So far as he was afraid there is no corroboration anyway. So I consider there's no ultimate answer to the question 'is anxiety inherited'?.

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

As kids we might have seen someone near to us having an anxiety attack and not really realized what was happening. But what we would of picked up, was the fear they where feeling. And if it was a close relative who was acting afraid, then we would really be terrified, as we looked to them to keep us safe. But we wouldn't 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 certain. Although it could be truly advantageous at times to know where my anxiety came from. And yes when I was feeling down it may of been rather beneficial to have anyone to blame and be angry with. But again that's just part of the process, well it was for me. The not knowing or understanding was really frightening. It would of been beneficial for me to have the physician say, yes its inherited, at least then I might of least realized my anxiety better.