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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of kids with anxiety, too, but I also know a lot of adults who were like that as kids.  My father had debilitating shyness ... that's what it was known as then.  It would be called anxiety now.  I was shy, my sisters were shy, etc.  We avoided things because of it.  All of that would be diagnosed as some kind of anxiety now.  Medications or therapy would be offered.  Back then it was just part of growing up.[/quote]
Shyness is normal part of growing up.  Learning how to deal with it is important. But medicating kids for shyness is a mistake because then kids don't learn how to deal with shyness.[/quote]

You are confusing 'slow to warm' with shyness.  People often do.   The pp indicated that her father had [i]debilitating[/i] shyness.  Not run of the mill, slow to warm. [/quote]

Yep.  His was 'hide in the library until everyone's gone'-type.

Anyway, like the nature/nurture debate, there's probably a bit of both arguments.  I.e. (1) people have always had anxiety problems and it was just considered a quirk rather than an illness/issue in the past; and (2) people are generally more anxious these days due to pressures to do everything correctly.[/quote]

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