I know OCD can be genetic. My grandmother has severe contamination OCD and I have pure O (as well as other ones that I have had in the past). But I’ve only read about how if you have family members in your immediate family with OCD, you have a higher chance of getting it. Is it possible that I have OCD from my grandma?

No they’re several studies that show a genetic factor as well as recent studies to show four different genes that could be the cause of OCD. I definitely believe it’s a result of several different factors but I do believe genes play a role!

You’re right. I don’t know why I care. Maybe it legitimizes it more in my brain? ??‍♀️

Yup. Hit the nail on the head

My uncle had it. Dad too I suspect but undiagnosed. Definitely think its genetic. I don't believe they've proved it but the studies suggest it.

It’s highly likely that your grandma has affected you, but you don’t really inherit anxiety. It’s made from bad experiences. Both my grandparents were anxious individuals, and my mom was raised that way too. And so was I. So although it’s in your family, still curable

The genes would play a role in showing the symptoms and reactions of anxiety, right? Like a gene responsible for your respiratory system or your adrenal glands, something like that. I guess I’ve just become some paranoid conspiracy theorist that believes that American companies share information like that to make people believe psychological problems are things you’re born with and will have to *literally* pay for your whole lives. Naturally, the news spread to other places in the world. I just think it sounds off when literally every person I’ve met with anxiety are, in varying degrees, insecure and can account for why (like experiences that were scary or being raised to doubt yourself). Either because a parent themself was anxious and insecure, or because they were under some form of abuse

Oh I no doubt believe that your environment plays a major factor in anxiety and depression. But just like our kidneys and our lungs and our heart and our digestive tract can be off, our brains can be of which affects our minds which affects fight or flight responses, etc. I don’t trust everything that’s thrown out there either. However, I do know my experience with severe anxiety and OCD and am thankful for the pharmaceutical companies that have come up with products to help with what we’re going through. And you know what, even if it is because we have been raised a certain way, or have broken pasts, it still affects our bodies and our brains and sometimes we need the assistance of medication/therapy to help alleviate what’s going on.

I believe you’re right! And medication can be good for some, but damn I don’t dare try it. It’s like ecstacy or MDMA, the chemicals in your body also determines how they play out, so you could either feel real good or real bad. And it’s some weird symptoms too. My mom was physically unable to have orgasms while on antidepressants. Weird, right?

Mental illness does tend to run in families. It is possible to have a genetic predisposition to mental illness, which makes you more likely to develop one, but this doesn’t guarantee that you will. There are other factors involved that aren’t fully known. OCD is more likely to be linked to genetics if you developed it at a younger age rather than in adulthood.