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. We decided today to talk a little bit about anxiety,

we decided today to talk a little bit about anxiety,

recovery, and relapse and what that looks like.

The importance of sharing with our audience that setbacks can happen

on the pathway to recovery from anxiety and it's always a bit frustrating when you feel like

you take one step forward and two steps back or two steps forward and one step back.

So I guess what I'd like to ask you today back or two steps forward and one step back.

So I guess what I'd like to ask you today is,

what causes someone to experience a relapse?

When anxiety started getting diagnosed and dealt with as an illness, in a sense it changes our expectation of recovery.

So on the one hand, it's really good that people who are suffering from anxiety

are getting acknowledged and getting support that there's something very definite

going on but anxiety is a slippery little illness and it's not like when you get a cold or a flu and you think okay I'm starting to

feel better now and you expect to continue in a linear fashion to feel better.

Anxiety is much more tricky than that, it's much more sensitive than that,

and we're much more sensitive than that. So just to say that, you know, relaxes and setbacks,

whatever you want to call it, it's to be expected. And to more directly answer your question of what

causes someone to experience a relapse, it can be practically anything. It can be stress, it can be a change in our circumstances, our diet.

It might just be a bump in the road where we've been doing really great and we're just

having an off day.

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