Anxiety: transmission general & specific risks #anxiety #mentalhealth

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]So this was a way to see, like, is it more of a general risk or is it a risk that is specifically associated with anxiety disorders? And what we could see was that when we adjusted for other parental psychiatric disorders, the risk was attenuated, and this indicates that, okay, so part of the risk is not specific to anxiety problems in the parents. It is a general risk, and this is something that we see in a lot of researches, as you were mentioning. But also, we could also see that some of the It was still a significant risk, so it's not all about a general risk. It's all There is also disorder-specific patterns. And I think I think this is something that is super interesting and quite complex to understand because at the same time, something we saw in this study was that at the Even if we looked at distinct anxiety disorders, we could see that the child had the highest level of risk for developing the same kind of anxiety disorder as the parent. And this is kind of contradictory, like the risk is both general, but it can also be specific mechanisms. So I think we should look at both levels, making it very complex