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It's likely genetics. Anxiety is a highly genetically inheritable trait. Your children could have been raised by adoptive parents and still be anxious, because they inherited that genetic profile from you.

An example: both my parents have different, serious, auto-immune diseases. I have two mild, well-managed, auto-immune diseases. My daughter was unfortunately diagnosed with a potentially serious auto-immune disease, that thankfully right now is still in the early stages. I really hope my other children have nothing in that department, but they could be diagnosed at any point in their lives.

Also, we are all highly anxious in the family.

The question should be: does anxiety and other mental illnesses tend to occur at greater frequencies in populations with auto-immune diseases (or other types of illness)? Perhaps. It still doesn't mean one caused the other. It means there is a cluster of inheritable mutations that cause both anxiety AND that other disease to be expressed in the same person.

- geneticist.[/quote]

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