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Anxiety: Genetics or Habit!

Martyn_Wolf
5 min readJul 12, 2024

“Life is like a 2p coin, sometimes you’re on heads and other times tails. Whichever you end up on in life, how you interpret it is what matters”

Anxiety, a word that has gained a lot of attention and traction in the last few years, it seems we have an “anxiety epidemic” with just about everyone proclaiming they have anxiety of some kind for something in their life.

. Social anxiety

. Anxiety Anxiety

. Chronic Anxiety

. Anxiety from not being on your phone doom scrolling

. Text Anxiety

. Anxiety from not pooping

. Anxiety about not having the foods you want

. Anxiety about the flavour of latte

(some of these are obviously exaggerated)

Why the sudden explosion of such a “condition” is it from the increase in social media, people always being indoors, texting and so on. The reasons appear to be many and varied. I have a hypothesis or two to all this “anxiety” people keep proudly claiming they have (social anxiety seems to be the biggest one)

What causes Anxiety?

This can be a vexed question, we have science proclaiming that anxiety is a genetic trait and that is simultaneously a factor of…

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