Can anxiety be passed on to future generations through our genes? In contrast to the well-documented connection between parents and offspring in clinical anxiety, not much was known about the relationship between the everyday-life anxieties of parents (e.g., family, finances, health) and the anxieties of...
Is it good to read up on anxiety when you don’t know what to do? Yes, but only when the information is from a trustworthy source. Seeking information when anxious might help decrease the aversive feeling of uncertainty and immediate decision‑making (Charpentier et al., 2022,...
When threatened, we naturally feel anxious. But anxiety can make us see threats that aren’t really there. Anxiety is an anticipatory response to perceived, future threats (Glasgow et al., 2022). Individuals may experience threats in familiar environments where they have gained prior knowledge of concerning,...