Stress & Anxiety

From the UHN Managing Stress & Anxiety issue of UHN Managing Stress & Anxiety

4. What Causes Anxiety?

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By Shandley McMurray • October 1, 2018

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Anxiety isn’t something you catch from touching an infected surface, nor does it happen overnight. Consider anxiety like a fine wine. It takes many years of aging in the perfect environment to get a full-bodied red. Mix compromised genetics with a traumatic childhood and a stressful environment and bam!—you’ve got an anxiety disorder. It took […]

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