What Caused Your Anxiety? Your best g...

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Mon, 10-23-2006 - 4:46am

What Caused Your Anxiety? Your best guess as to how it all started.



  • An illness/surgery of mine or someone close to me.
  • Death of a friend or loved one, a miscarriage.
  • Loss of a job, financial security, home(fire, flooding)etc.
  • Trauma,assault, accident,rape,robbery,murder,abuse, war, natural disaster, etc.
  • After the birth of one of my children.
  • A move, job change, school, graduation, etc.
  • Divorce, breakup or a severing of a close relationship.
  • Marriage.
  • A combination of many stressors. Please feel free to post.
  • Other. Please feel free to post.


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Registered: 03-11-2004
Sat, 10-28-2006 - 6:13am
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Registered: 07-28-2004
Sat, 10-28-2006 - 7:34pm

I voted loss of job/financial security, because this was a huge issue/ combined with family health issues when my worst anxiety started and I always get so much worse when worrying about $.

But I think I also qualify for a wide variety of stressors too. Being super busy, intense workload at school, family health issues, taking care of DD, in-law issues etc. all contribute tremendously to how I feel and react.

I'm also convinced that my father was GAD and clinically depressed for years, so probably genetic factor also.

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Dee

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Sat, 10-28-2006 - 11:24pm
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Registered: 11-10-2005
Sun, 10-29-2006 - 8:47am
I voted other, because I honestly believe I was born this way or it started at such a young age, I cannot pinpoint a moment that caused it. My first "panic attack" was around age 2.
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