Fidgety, Fidgey, Fidgety

落ち着かない。落ち着かない。

「７th Path」療法のテキストにもなっている“The Secret Language of Feelings” （Calvin D. Banyan）には次のように書かれている。

Habitual Stress

… Still other families always seem to be in catastrophe mode, going from one unmanageable drama to the next. The message here is that no matter how hard you try, life will always somehow find a way to pull the rug out from under you. This kind of thinking leads to a life of ongoing unmanageable stress, which is inadvertently passed from parent to children and from generation to generation, over and over again.

I believe that anxiety disorders can easily be passed on from generation to generation, without any kind of genetic component. If you grew up in an environment where your parents were always a day late and a dollar short, always in a frenzy about how to handle even everyday situations, it’s likely that you picked up that kind of behavior from them. If you don’t learn to respond to stress in a different way than you may have learned as a child, you not only can pass it on to your children, it can even become a family tradition, so to speak. (p. 123)