I have never met two patients who have had
identical anxiety symptoms — no two cases of anxiety are alike and therefore, no two cases should be approached in the same way.
Not exact matches
Using measures of anxious personality in parents and
anxiety symptoms in their offspring, adult parents from
identical twin pairs were found to show greater similarity in
anxiety levels to their own adolescent children than their nieces and nephews.
Notably, substituting birth parent
anxiety symptoms (BAI) for birth parent negative affect, which produces greater construct equivalence between birth and adoptive parent measures, resulted in an
identical pattern of results.
Also,
symptom criteria for depressive
symptoms and
anxiety disorders are almost
identical according to the DSM manual from mid adolescence up to adulthood.