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The Anxious Cycle: How Children Inherit Our Anxiety [PsychCentral.com]

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As a victim of childhood trauma, I have a propensity toward anxiety. It is my reaction of choice when life gets difficult. Having lived with anxiety most of my life, I never knew there was another way to live. I assumed it was normal. I assumed everybody lived this way.

 

I became so used to the way anxiety made me feel, I could function through almost any symptoms. Sometimes, the panic attacks would paralyze me momentarily, but I could work through the quick breathing and the heart racing. At the end of the day, I would be exhausted, as though I had run a marathon, but I could make it work.

 

[For more of this story, written by Elisabeth Corey, go to http://psychcentral.com/blog/a...9/the-anxious-cycle/]

 

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