I have been diagnosed and medicated for general anxiety which I have suffered with for a few years, became increasingly bad and now has tailed off nicely with citalopram.
When I told my MIL she said if I didn't 'snap' out of it I would make my children anxious. My children are now grown up, my son has ASD and therefore does have some mild anxieties, but my daughter is fairly resilient to the rough and tumble of life.
However, since going to university my DD occasionally worries about small things like getting her work finished, making new friends, getting bills paid etc. Whenever she begins to worry we obviously go through it with her and she quickly moves on. The problem is...whenever I see her worrying, it then makes me worry because I feel I have passed something onto her unwittingly. This causes me to take a few steps back from my recover as I feel so guilty. Just as I'm getting ontop of things, something happens to make me slide back to how I was. I sometimes worry that my worrying has made my son ASD, but my GP says no. I am basically worrying about the effects of worrying on my family.
Anyone else?