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Born Anxious by Daniel P. Keating
As written by a professor of psychology, this book focuses on why people become anxious in early stages of their lives, how they deal with their communities, and what a government can do about it. It is a personal psychological book that unexpectedly evolves to broader area of public policy. Because it is constructed based on various studies and researches, the book offers practical suggestion to us as a parent, a friend, a policy maker, or a sufferer to deal with anxious personality. Overall, this book consists of 7 chapters in which I prefer to divide to 3 main parts.
A. WHY PEOPLE BECOME ANXIOUS
[chapter 1: early life stress] An attitude toward the notion why someone has become anxious individual, most people would blame his/her environment (parents, extended family, and neighbor) or we call it nurturing factors. However some people argue that the gene is the cause of anxious child where they relate it with dyslexia, attention disorders, and other learning disabilities. Despite of the more popular opinion for the former argument, the later has Darwinist belief about survival the fittest (gene), or we can call it natural factor.
Nevertheless, there is new approach to explain about the cause instead of simply point a finger at nature or nurture. It is called an epigenetic change, a gene’s function is altered by an external factors.
