Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan van der Leek here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe and today we're talking about what you can do when you're newly diagnosed with anxiety.

Welcome back in Nanga.

Tayshain.

Hope you enjoyed your summer break.

Thank you. It's nice to be with you again and to talk about what we do when we have

been diagnosed with anxiety. Where do you go from here? And I think in the beginning of all of this,

it's about taking a deep, deep breath and being kind to yourself.

Yeah, some space is needed.

And I think also it's important to mention that what we're going to be sharing today is also really supportive if you've been doing okay with anxiety and you're having a bit of a flare up to just come back around to the points we're going to be talking about. So anytime

anxiety is increasing or causing you some disturbance, these teachings will be supportive.

And yeah, definitely it begins with kindness, doesn't it?

Just taking the pressure off, only we can do it for ourselves, give some space,

show some kindness.

A new anxiety diagnosis can take a bit of time to process and different people will receive it in different ways.

For some it might be a relief that finally they've been given a

diagnosis that respects their experience and means they're going to be able to

discuss some options for help. Some might feel a little bit burdened by a diagnosis.

Sometimes if we have a bit more fire in our psychological makeup, we may feel a little bit that we've failed or we're not up to scratch.

Yes. So really important to respond as an individual and think what does this mean for me and even

if somebody else is talking to you about their experience

it's not your experience I think firstly to allow some self-compassion and space to

process what does this mean for you and how do you need to go about dealing with it?

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