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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the poster insisting anxiety always has some underlying cause.

My child has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I likely have it in a milder form, though have no official diagnosis.

The anxiety often arises as a free floating feeling, rather than one coming from some specific cause. I can literally see the thought process in my daughter (and identify it in myself) as the brain goes looking for a cause to attach to the anxiety, because a feeling without an obvious logical cause is unsettling. The reason she will ultimately settle on for the anxious feeling has *nothing* to do with causing it. It is a feeling in search of a cause. The underlying cause is brain chemistry and genetics. The best coping mechanisms are tools to balance brain chemistry (sleep, diet, and, yes, most definitely medication) combined with learning to identify when this is happening and develop tools for managing it - but that is a hard skill to learn, and one a lot of teens haven't mastered yet. (Heck, a lot of adults haven't mastered it).[/quote]

How did our brain chemistry get so screwed up then, to the point where anxiety is at epidemic levels? What’s happened in the last 20, 50, 100 years?[/quote]

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