Posted by rainbowbrite on October 2, 2005, at 11:11:05
In reply to Why am I going through this?, posted by lynn970 on October 1, 2005, at 23:43:53
> I wonder how much of the anxiety/depression is genetic and how much of it is because of the verbal and physical abuse I experienced in the past/
Well, that depends on how many people in your family, or as I like to look at it how many people in your extended family rather than direct have mental illness. That may indicate more of a predisposition.
I believe that there is a gene that most people are born with and through life experience that gene gets either overdeveloped or ignored and overpowered by other genes. If the gene gets over-worked than the window of probability of it becoming fully active gets larger and larger.
So to answer your question I would would say that your gene for anxiety/depression was activated because of your life experience.(((lynn))) in case you needed it
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