{"id":976,"date":"2023-01-18T22:30:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therapyforanxiety.org\/?p=976"},"modified":"2023-01-18T22:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:30:55","slug":"what-causes-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapyforanxiety.org\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"What causes anxiety?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What causes anxiety?<br>Some people seem to be born with a tendency to be anxious and indeed recent research suggests that a<br>risk for certain forms of anxiety disorders can be inherited.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other people develop anxiety disorders after having experienced specific traumatic, stressful incidents or<br>events in their life \u2013 for example, divorce, bereavement<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\" title=\",\">,<\/a> starting a new job, moving house, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-therapy-for-anxiety wp-block-embed-therapy-for-anxiety\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/therapyforanxiety.org\/what-is-anxiety\/\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/therapyforanxiety.org\/what-is-anxiety\/\">What is anxiety?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anxiety disorders can also be \u2018learnt\u2019 &#8211; for example, you can become anxious after seeing someone else<br>acting in an anxious way. Usually this happens when children see their parent\/significant adult in their life<br>being scared of something &#8211; for example, spiders.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With time, the child also develops a fear of spiders and \u2018learns\u2019 this anxious behaviour. However, for<br>many people there is no obvious trigger for their anxiety and it is just something that they develop.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next section of this guide goes into further detail about the causes of anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What causes anxiety?Some people seem to be born with a tendency to be anxious and indeed recent research suggests that arisk for certain forms of anxiety disorders can be inherited. 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