ScaredToBreathe
Well-known member
My parents don't have it. I had a pretty good childhood. I wasn't really bullied at all. Thinking back now, I was normal when I was very young, I had friends, I spoke up in school. At some point the anxiety took hold and it gradually kept getting worse so slowly that I didn't even notice it was happening. The only contributing environmental factor I can think of is my overprotective parents. I wasn't allowed to do anything with people from school. I wasn't allowed to talk on the phone. I wasn't even allowed to ride my bicycle past the neighbors driveway. My parents always had to be there watching and supervising whenever I went anywhere. It continued like that till I was 16 or 17. When I had no experience doing anything without my parents leading me, and then I suddenly have to drive myself to college and deal with that on my own, it's no wonder I quit.
it could just be biological, like a chemical imbalance in the brain or something, if it's not so environmental/genetic