Anxiety in Toddlers?

[ShanNi7]

So basically, I've been reading about my anxiety and in most cases that I have read the anxiety has started mainly during teenage years or adulthood. However, I've been having anxiety attacks my entire life, from the moment that I was born. I remember as a toddler, maybe two or three years old, waking up and having these attacks and my parents didn't know what was going on and neither did doctors at that time because I couldn't explain what it was what I was feeling. I used to have them regularly, maybe two or three times a week. I'd wake up, tingling, unable to stay still, the world morphing and changing around me and I obviously I had no idea what it was. It became a part of my life, I grew up with it and thought It was completely normal and just a part of my normal life. However, a few months ago (I'm 17 now) I saw a video about anxiety and anxiety attacks and discovered that it was that that I have been experiencing. I did more researching, which is where I found that I've never heard of children having it. I don't know much about it, which is why I'm asking in hopes that someone may know, so it is possible that there may be something wrong with me to have had it my entire life?

I'm not stressed or depressed, I haven't had any childhood trauma, but As I grew older I learned to control my anxiety by myself, but ever since I discovered what it was it's started to come back more often and I'm afraid that there may be something seriously wrong.

Sorry it's so long, I just need a little advice. :/ thanks! :)

[Paxiled]

What you've read, I think, is that most people get major depression or anxiety problems in their late teens or twenties.  But some do get it at other ages.  Childhood anxiety is considered to be different from adult anxiety, but again, if for you it's been the same all along with no break then that's you.  But it sounds like your childhood anxieties did calm down.  For some, anxiety is caused by trauma, but for others we can't find the reason.  One popular form of therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy doesn't care why you have it, they just try to teach you how not to have it now.  Might be an avenue of help for you if you don't know of any cause for it.  As the above said, many of us just get it suddenly, but in reality when we go back and look we can see it was coming, it just changed from an occasional thing to a more constant thing.  That's what happened to me and I have no idea why it's there.

[birdie0907]

" is possible that there may be something wrong with me to have had it my entire life"
I don't think you will find any clues in your past that will be useful to deal with anxiety you experience now. People get anxiety for many reasons, and some don't even have reasons - it just flares up unexpectedly. Consider this person who never had it until one day it came from nowhere and won't leave him alone anymore. http://www.medhelp.org/user_journals/show/857117/5--CNN-article-about-anxiety-sufferer