Questions about GAD and panic disorders

[Matrix]

Hello everyone, I'd be greatful is someone could help me with my questions here.

1. What causes GAD and panic disorders, is it usualy through events in childhood?

2. What is the likely hood that GAD or other disorders will be passed on to children and is there anything to stop it?

3. And finaly, what treatments are available for disorders.

[Star]

I think that it is different for everyone.

To answer your questions, I will do it from what I've been through with anxiety.

1. What causes GAD and panic disorders, is it usualy through events in childhood? For me personally I think what caused my anxiety at a young age was the fear of loosing my parents, (never did though) then it developed into school phobia, so bad that I never completed highschool. Plus I was also bullied and tortured as well.

Amoung other reasons for my anxiety...

2. What is the likely hood that GAD or other disorders will be passed on to children and is there anything to stop it? I think it can be passed down in the family. My grandmas has agorahphobia, and my mom had panic attacks/anxiety. My cousin has ocd, and his grandpa has depression.

3. And finaly, what treatments are available for disorders. As for treatments, there are alot of different ones. For me I've been in therapy for the past 8 yrs, not just for GAD but SAD, Depression and PTSD. I'm still with the same psychiatrist as well. Medication has been a great help as well, same with self help books.

I think treatment is different for everyone, Also CBT has helped me as well with anxiety.

[Matrix]

Thanks for the reply.

Would you anxiety is more likely to be cause by a situation rather than something you are born with?

[Fishinguy]

Good afternoon :)

Well, a little about my own situation that might help you some. My grandmother on my mother's side of the family was plagued with depression, anxiety and all sorts of other mental/emotional disorders her entire life. I can vividly remember growing up how she would fret, worry, have crying spells and she even tried to commit 0119 once. She also checked herself into a psychiatric hospital at least twice.

There are also some mental health issues in my immediate family that I see in myself (depression, anxiety, etc) and I have read that there is a strong genetic component (ie; it runs in familes). I've heard other people say that people in their family had the same disorders too so I'm going to guess that you are born with it although I think you can develop "situational anxiety" as a result of some stressful or scary event in you life too.

[Star]

Thanks for the reply.

Would you anxiety is more likely to be cause by a situation rather than something you are born with?

Umm I don't know, I'd think it was caused more from different situations.
But I am not sure.

[Lostcause]

1. What causes GAD and panic disorders, is it usualy through events in childhood?

My problems mostly involve obsessive thoughts so I'm probably in the wrong forum but It is widely believed within the medical community that many of these disorders are caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain. I don't know if it's inherited or not but if I were to take a guess, I'd say that it is although I am not a doctor or anything.

[Sassyfur98]

It is both.  Environment and inherited.  i think environment because it is inherited.  Out of 5 of my kids, only 1, who is 13, struggles with OCD.  Luckily I recognized the mental illness in my familyl, and work very hard to give my kids a good stable home.  Although the others may experience it later in life, if I had raised them as my parents raised me, I have no doubt they all would be struggling with anxiety.  You can only be yelled at so much, and put down so much, before you expect that from everyone, thus causeing axiety.