Where did your Anxiety come from?

[Izthewiz]

Hello friends.

Just asking about where your Anxiety came from?
Mine came on as a young kid, my house hold was very unstable.
My parents were divorced so I lived with one of them and wouldn't ever pay rent on time.
We were always moving from place to place at one point we moved 5 times in less than 9 months.
I dropped out of school my family was upset with me but without stability I couldn't keep going to school,and what really caused a lot of Anxiety and depression is finding my mom attempting suicide while I was young it really messed me up.
But I have learned as a parent to forgive my parents, love my child and wife and let them know I love them daily.
Even though I had a tough life I'm still very blessed and rich in Christ.

 

[suzzeeb]

Mine also came as a young kid. My parents drank a lot and fought a lot and my sister and I were never really priorities. I saw my mom come home from bars at all hours on the weekends and I was always terrified about what was going to happen. I think I was really a shy and sensitive kid anyway so it was pretty hard on me. My sister, who is a year older than me, did not grow up with anxiety even though we had the same experiences, so I'm guessing I either took everything more to heart than she did or I was just born more sensitive. Also, my mom was very anxious and constantly telling us don't do this or that or something bad would happen. She was always saying she was a nervous wreck and always worried about everything, so I'm sure a lot of it was just something I learned from her.

I also forgive my parents. Once I moved out we were very close and I loved them very much and miss them every day.

I too feel blessed, but I do have my moments of wondering why the Lord lets us go through such hard times, especially for a lifetime. I probably will not get that answer this side of heaven.

 

[Aries]

Mine also came as a young kid. My parents drank a lot and fought a lot and my sister and I were never really priorities. I saw my mom come home from bars at all hours on the weekends and I was always terrified about what was going to happen.

Same here. My dad would be at the bars and mom would stay home and drink then get violent sometimes. She set herself on fire smoking a couple of times. She almost drowned in the bathtub once. She killed my dog when I was at school one day. Her brother molested me when I was 6 and after I told dad she was mad at me for years. No cops got called. They just kept him away from me. She died when I was 13.

 

[Izthewiz]

My mother was also a drinker and alcoholic.
So I feel you both about life and experiencing this .
I just don't get why some mother's put themselves before their children like mine did.
I was also molested by my moms boyfriend and when I told her about it, she made him apologize and still dated him.

 

[Aries]

My mother was also a drinker and alcoholic.
So I feel you both about life and experiencing this .
I just don't get why some mother's put themselves before their children like mine did.
I was also molested by my moms boyfriend and when I told her about it, she made him apologize and still dated him.

If you accept the drinking as a disease you can forgive that. I remember one of the times I talked to a psychologist about it and he said that labeling alcoholism as a disease was ridiculous. I didn't see him much longer. The molestation is another matter entirely. It depends on what happened after. I believe in restorative justice because it's hard to prove these things and the legal process is hard on victims plus people who have been wrongly accused.