I didn’t need to read this one, cause I already knew. My mother was a
very anxious woman, and once I gave myself more space by moving out of
her house and away from her influence, my own anxiety symptoms improved.
Not to mention, when one is growing up, parents who are overprotective,
irritable, depressed and controlling are more likely to have socially
anxious children.
Well, now we have this research article to prove this. Researchers at
the Johns Hopkins University Children’s Center recently concluded a
study that investigated the relationships between parents living with
social anxiety disorder and their children. As indicated by the study,
parents with SAD display less affection for
their kids than parents without SAD. Consequently,
parents with social anxiety disorder are at a greater risk of seeing their own children
develop anxiety. Read more…
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