| Is this my mom's fault? Is this my fault? Why did this | | | | feelings and more. |
| happen to me and not my brother? These are | | | | There is some evidence that panic attacks may be an |
| probably only some of the questions that are | | | | inherited risk. But blaming your parents isn´t the |
| percolating through your mind as you struggle to | | | | answer; there is also a lot of evidence to indicate that |
| understand and control your anxiety disorder. | | | | panic attacks are a learned response that can happen |
| Understanding the causes of your anxiety disorder is | | | | in healthy people when specific circumstances occur. |
| important in assisting to resolve the problems you are | | | | There are a number of people who believe that there |
| facing. While relaxation techniques can be implemented | | | | is a single cause and even a single solution to anxiety |
| with or without understanding the source of your | | | | conditions. This is not true; anxiety conditions are often |
| anxiety, they will be more effective if you work to | | | | the result of a confluence of participating causes |
| uncover the reasons for your anxiety. | | | | which are most often both biological and |
| | | | | psychological. |
| Understanding why you are anxious and what triggers | | | | You may have grown up in a horrible environment, |
| your anxiety or panic attacks will help you employ your | | | | where your parents neglected, abandoned and abused |
| relaxation tools more timely and effectively. A deeper | | | | you. While this awful treatment in your childhood |
| understanding of your anxiety and panic attacks will | | | | probably contributed to the anxiety disorder you have |
| also help to resolve them. | | | | today, there are a lot of children who grew up in a |
| Sometimes, simply understanding why something is | | | | similar environment but didn´t develop panic attacks, |
| happening to you can relieve an enormous burden and | | | | or obsessive compulsion, or phobias or any kind of |
| reduce the frequency of your panic. You don´t have | | | | anxiety. |
| to continue to ask yourself, why me? Once you know | | | | Why you and not them? The answer is, it´s not only |
| the triggers, you can work to control your fears. | | | | psychological, it´s biological too! You were probably |
| However, in seeking understanding you probably | | | | predisposed to an anxiety condition that was then |
| won´t find clear answers. Finding the one right | | | | triggered by the stresses of your childhood. |
| answer will be elusive because there are so many | | | | Many researchers believe that a certain part of the |
| reasons people develop anxiety disorders. | | | | brain called the locus cerelus is the cause of panic |
| Your anxiety disorder, your panic attacks are probably | | | | disorders. While your local cerelus malfunctions during a |
| the result of a combination of hereditary, biology, family | | | | panic attack, other peoples may not. Moreover, the |
| background and upbringing, conditioning, recent | | | | cause of your malfunction may be psychological in |
| stresses, your personal belief system, chemical | | | | nature, a build up of stress, anger or other repressed |
| imbalances in the brain or your ability to express | | | | feelings. |