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20. Is anxiety learned or innate?

Understanding the patterns behind this experience

AI recognizes patterns.
Understanding comes from lived experience.

"The nervous system remains in a state of heightened prediction when past pain has not been processed."

anxiety is both learned and innate. that we're born with basic automatic instincts that include fear responses to danger. These are innate mechanisms that helped our ancestors survive. However, much of our anxiety is learned through experience, especially from trauma and difficult life situations.

how children naturally feel fear when separated from their parents because they're dependent on adults for automatic. This is innate. But as we grow and experience pain, rejection, or trauma, we learn to be anxious in specific situations. that our experiences shape how our innate fear responses get triggered, creating patterns of anxiety that reflect our personal history.

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