Question 9

Just to make sure, do you mean general anxiety disorder? Also do you mean getting OCD by heredity or exposure? Usually OCD has a higher chance to be passed down with heredity if one of their parents or even grandparents (is a gamble if DNA when a disorder appears down the family tree). OCD can also occur from environment but I'm not as well verse on that side of the argument such as how often and studies done with that as I've had people shared they claim it was from brain injury, near death experiences, trauma etc. The idea the brain got so scared it starts obsessing how to behave to fix things. But there's a line to determine the difference between OCD and PTSD which requires a guidance from expert to help assess that without OCD and PTSD arguing about why and how it happened. The difficult answer is it's too unclear to know if it is. The short answer is that's not a reliable correlation to causation. Hard answer is OCD makes it feel very important as if this answer will connect to closure and insight when no matter what the answer is, it's not about why or how it happens, it's what happened to what do you want to happen now. Example OCD makes me worry about my dad's view of me, I no longer want to worry about what others view of me and have the freedom to choose what I want to do even if I am still anxious or hurt, which can lead to be in the space to be in the discomfort to find the comfort sitting there "failure is not the opposite of success, failure is a price you pay to become someone better".

I guess technically you possibly could, scientists actually don’t know what causes OCD. Something’s scientists think might play a role in having it is environmental factors like trauma or bullying, possibly a genetic link (though there isn’t a gene that we know of that causes OCD) of some sort, or people who already have a mental health condition could be predisposed to it. It’s likely a mix of things that cause it but scientists don’t know for sure what causes it. There is also a rare phenomenon called Pandas which is an autoimmune disorder kids can get after having a strep infection and for some reason a lot of OCD cases in children are linked to Pandas. No idea why though. Anyway all of this is my long way to say yeah maybe you got it from your dad like maybe you were predisposed to it somehow, also maybe not, no one really knows mystery of science.