Welcome to That Anxiety Guy, episode 14, the long and winding road. Hey everybody Drew here that anxiety guide.com as always thanks for stopping by to listen I do appreciate it

something different today I'm actually recording the podcast outside in my backyard because it's April and it's

spring and it's warm and the sun is out and yeah this is a whole lot of fun so I'm

sitting on my deck and hopefully no we'll have no barking dogs or anything like that but if we do get that that is exactly why so I want to let you know ahead of time

Today we're gonna talk about the topic of the path of recovery from anxiety disorders and how it's not generally almost never a straight line.

In fact, as I mentioned the title of the episode, it can be quite the long and winding road.

It can be unpredictable and there's going to be good days and bad days and

ups and downs and there are going to be setbacks along the way.

Knowing to expect this and how to objectively and accurately judge your progress can actually make the

process a bit easier on us and in some cases can help you from becoming so

discouraged that you actually give up. So this is definitely something worth

talking about. Now the overriding concept here in the entire episode is the idea that recovery is not linear.

So let's think of it this way.

Even the greatest athletes in the world that dominate their sport.

Don't turn in dominant performances game after game.

Everybody has an off day.

So even the world's most successful business people have failed many times more than once some have actually gone bankrupt at

times so progress is not always going to be rock steady and in a forward

direction every single minute of every single day that's just not her human beings are wired.

We don't operate like that.

That would be almost perfection, and that's impossible.

So you have to understand that this is not a linear process.

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