Hello scaredbaka,
you are really asking how phobias are
created.
Yes it can be inherited in the sense that
there are some faulty genes we can inherit
form parents that are inclined to have
anxiety attacks. The diabetic gene is
one.
Phobias are really a subcategory of
anxiety attacks, in that the fear reaction
has been linked to a mental or physical
stimulus at the time when the anxiety
attacks occurred.
There is a simple biological explanation
for anxiety attacks, that can develop into
a phobia. Both are experienced as
‘irrational’ fears.
Anxiety attack are caused by
overproduction of adrenaline - a fear
hormone - generated from within due to a
metabolic disorder. Hence we have no
control over the prevention or the
generation of a fear response without an
external object.
We tend to ‘rationalize’ our irrational
fear by making up a story to justify why
we feel frightened or disturbed. This is
called ‘reverse conditioning’ in
psychology.
Excess adrenaline is a response to when
the brain senses a sudden starvation of
biological energy in the form of a low
blood sugar level on which it depends for
normal operations. Adrenaline is a
hormone that converts glycogen (stored
sugar stores) into glucose the feed the
brain again.
Abnormal fluctuations of blood sugar
levels to the brain is due to insulin
resistance (hypoglycemia), that blocks the
proper metabolism of glucose into
biological energy called atp.
When the brain senses a starvation of
energy, it will send stress hormones to
the adrenal glands to pour adrenaline into
the system. This causes unexplainable
anxiety attacks and it is also responsible
for a host of other ‘mental’ disorders,
such as insomnia, depression, mood swings,
anger outbursts, alcoholism and drug
addiction, personality disorders of all
kinds.
Please read:
“beating anxiety” at our web site.
Jurriaan plesman
for more articles see
free web site at:
http://www.Hypoglycemia.Asn.Au
the two books we
used in my group are really good and I
would recommend them both highly: been
there, done that? Do this! By sam obitz
(www.Tao3.Com) for anxiety and depression
and mastery of your anxiety and
panic-third edition by michelle craske and
david barlow (www.Amazon.Com) for panic
disorder. I hope this is useful to you.