The "root" of anxiety.

What is the very root, the very core of this horrid problem. What essentially causes it, and is its very core. What structure supports the entire problem, so that when it is pulled, the problem dissappears??
I have an idea what this root is, but its so hard to fully access! any help?

Naveed, read my information on The Amygdala on my website at www.panic-anxiety.com... The NIMH have recently issued a paper confirming what I have believed for years. It may not be what you have been led to believe.

Charles

I am convinced that the root cause of my fear is from my childhood. I am 39 now, and I have been living with an almost constant, nebulous fear my whole life. I get particular attacks as well, but the underlying fear almost never goes away. I think a DX of Complex PTSD fits my case the best. I realize that living conditions as a child probably set me into a state of hypervigilance, from which I have never awakened, though any danger is decades past. I did not remeber being afraid as a child until recently. I have begun to remember things from childhood related to my present fear. For example, I remember seeing my parents (they are giants in my memory) and being in a corner not able to make myself small enough.