After years of having anxiety and depression, I have only recently discovered that I suffered from anxiety. While everyone has it at various times in there life, its a perfectly natural way to respond to danger.
However over anxiety is a reaction that we have been taught, my mother was a very anxious person up untill my late teens, however is very relaxed now, more so than my dad (both 65) who gets anxious when out of his comfort zone.
Has my dad and me (44) had it drummed into us after years of witnessing my mum panic over something like a truck pass us on the motorway or someone shout in public. Have we learnt to trigger are anxiety when things are out of are control.
Put it this way, I would be anxious if I had to get a train from Manchester to London, but I would jump in the car and drive there without a care in the world. While this would be the opposite for others
We choose to get anxious in the situations were in, with practice we can choose not to let anxiety rule are lives