Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my friend and Anxiety Slayer partner, Ananga Civier.

We come together weekly to share Anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from

our inbox and Facebook page.

We like to mix up a potent blend of coaching, storytelling,

Iurveda, EFT tapping, guided relaxations,

and so much more, along with our many years of personal experience and

have an extensive library of digital offerings in the Anxiety Slayer Academy.

Today we're going to discuss a listener question about how to support a friend who is

suffering with anxiety. I trust I'm among my fellow Buffy fans here. Very glad I came

across your podcast.

I'm quite concerned and quite hamstrung from helping a dear friend of mine who suffers from

general anxiety disorder.

My friend silently suffered through a five-day bout of anxiety the last time we saw each

other. We were working and rooming together on a project in New York City. He became distant after

we got back and soon after abruptly accused me of disrespecting

his boundaries before cutting off the friendship.

I reflexively protested a little but gave him a few weeks of space before trying unsuccessfully to re-engage.

During that month, he must have ruminated like hell because he emerged convinced of a patently false perception of something he believes I said

while we were in New York and has fearfully avoided me ever since.

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