Anxiety, in fact, is the result of the chronic activation of our fight and flight response that shows up as hypervigilance and restlessness because in some way our culture and environment have "taught" us that in order to stay safe we need to constantly be on the lookout for danger and to urgently respond to the world around us.
When it comes to anxiety it is often in childhood that the nervous system learned to be hypervigilant. No one wakes up at 25, 35 or 50 years old and become anxious. Anxiety is a body process that starts in our physiology way before we first realize we don't have to worry all the time and way before our body reaches its activation threshold and starts manifesting more severe symptoms, such as panic attacks.
If we find ourselves being anxious as adults, it is very likely during childhood events that shouldn’t have happened to us happened (e.g., abuse, neglect, isolation, inadequate response to emotional needs, etc.) or events that should have happened didn’t happen (e.g. receiving love, affection, support, security, safety).
Context is everything when it comes to assessing your health and making the right choices.
Family background plays a big role in mental health and when it comes to family background we don't just mean the things we remember or are told, but also all the things we don't remember or weren't told. In fact, our body also picked up on those stories nonetheless. But it's the cultural context too which is too stressful for the average caregiver to be able to be physically present and emotionally attuned to their children. There’s no "village".
This is why anxiety is a NORMAL response to chronic stress and not a disorder. Despite what our disordered culture keeps telling us, anxiety comes with valuable feedback from our nervous system and psyche pointing us towards healing.