Separation and insecure attachment are known risk factors for GAD for those who have experienced it. Children develop insecure attachment when their parents have a response rate that is inconsistent or practically nonexistent. This leads to the children eventually developing avoidant and anxious-ambivalent characteristics. This is when they distance themselves from those around them(usually caregiver) and/ or begin to start attaching themselves to their caregivers for an excessive amount of time and then display annoyance/ irritation upon rejection. In a recent study done by Newman, those who had GAD when they were children were more likely to have the disorder as adults too by 75%. Compared to the control group, those with GAD had a higher