SA inherited?

[Parttimer]

What are the pple in your family like? Do any of ur parents, siblings have SA or shyness?

 

[Chilling_Echo]

my mom talked to my psychiatrist the first day i went and was asking about family history, and the only thing we gathered was that she might have very well had it herself when she was young, but she feels she was more shy than anything. she's still really introverted. so kinda... then again SA's only been recognised for a little while now... i dunno

 

[Parttimer]

mums very shy. she has the odd friend but no circle of friends. i grew up without a dad so she was my main influence. I can't remember too many adults around our house ever. Only times we saw extended family was at christmas.

My brothers are very shy pple too.

 

[Sempfy]

My mum tells me all the time how she used to be really shy. Not anymore tho, and she keeps telling me you jes have to get past that stage and come out a bit more. She never had SA tho I don't think.

 

[GettingThere]

My dad is really shy but he doesn't have SA. Mum is not as shy but she does have it. Out of five children in the family, three have SA.

 

[Parttimer]

Is it ever talked about openly in your families?

Its not in mine. I think its cos we all know we have similar problems, so none of us really can really help each other with it.

edit: its not that i think that pple with similar problems can't help each other, witness this mb..

 

[Anonymous]

My Parents are pretty shy too. My parents are divorced since i was 5. My dad has been paying escorts in the past and watched porno at living room at home. My mom is shy, she has something like a.d.h.d i think.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't think it is inherited.But we do pick up on the triats of our parents and family.Confident people are brought up around confident people and shy people tend to be from shy families.

 

[Chilling_Echo]

Is it ever talked about openly in your families?

parttimer, the only one in my family that knows i have it is my mom. my dad is old fashioned and wouldn't understand i don't think.

but about my mom tending to be shy, our family is just really private anyway, just understood i guess. i rarely had friends coming over when i was growing up b/c my mom likes the privacy, which i understand

 

[felix]

My famaily are all pretty shy,my dad isn't but he's never really been around. not sure if my mum understands tho because she says i'll grow out of it which is annoying cos this isn't the kind of the thing u just grow out of i don't think

 

[Henry]

Man my well first of all my mom has to be the most talkative person I've ever known, so she never had SP. My dad was alittle shy but not half as bad as me. And the rest of my family are talkative all the time (halfs Italian, halfs German, Irish, Norweign) So no I dont think SP is inherited, at least not with me. Though perhaps it is with some people? I dont know.

 

[Nightshade]

My adoptive mother was shy when she was younger although she grew out of it, and I think she taught me "shy" behaviours when she was trying to improve my social skills. That created some problems for me because I'm not naturally shy and I just started believing that my personality was flawed because I wasn't "quiet".

Other than that, no sign of social phobia in my adoptive family, but then few if any of them would have guessed I have it I suspect (although they may wonder why this 33 year old has never shown any sign of having a boyfriend) - maybe some of them have it secretly.

In my genetic family I only know my mother's side, and there is a lot of mental illness and general weirdness, but I'm not sure whether that includes anxiety problems. Probably.

I'm very like them in personality. Amazingly so. When my adoptive mother met my genetic family it was like a lightbulb going on in her brain. "So that's why you are like that, so that is why you do that, or act that way etc". And I just fitted right in with them, in a way I never had before in my life.

But this is not to take anything away from my relationship with my adoptive family, particularly my mother. If I hadn't been adopted I would have been raised by a schizophrenic until I was placed in foster care, just like my younger sisters were. I get really angry if people try and be sympathetic towards me for being adopted. I was the LUCKY one.

 

[Anonymous]

my mum has SA ive only recently found out, i always suspected she might, then early last year I had a really bad time of it and she opened up and told me that she has the same anxiety's, though she hasnt spoke of it again since, it helped at the time but now i feel really alone, ive tried to talk to her in the past about it though she just ignored me , mental health stuff is a real taboo in my family, though i suspect it is something that I have inherited.[/i]

 

[blank]

I am almost certain it is inherited.
My father seems to have SA as well.
My aunt has mental problems.
My grandfather did as well
One of his brothers shot himself.
His other brother was retarded.
Etc..
I'm deformed and partially retarded....
but the chain stops with me.
I will never produce children.

( SA makes it all too easy )

 

[Anonymous]

I think it could be inherited also. I am not sure genetically but maybe more so when it comes to environmental factors and how you were brought up. I told my mum about my condition recently. She said that my grandmothers never really mixed with anyone and kept to herself. My mum's sister seems to have difficulty in socialising even thought she gets frustrated when she can't. It's like she wants to but she doesn't have the social skills to do it on her own. My parents are divorced and my dad pretty much keeps to himself and rarely leaves his flat. My brother hates going to see him as he never has anything to say really. I don't knock my dad for that as I am pretty much the same.