anxiety creeping up

[Daisy425]

hi everyone! It’s been a while! I am so proud of my progress but tonight for some reason I’m more anxious than normal. I am very close with my grandma and I am spending the night at her house to keep her company. I don’t know why I am anxious. She is beating up ham leftover from Sunday that she made in the oven for Easter. I guess I’m slightly worried I will get sick from it. I don’t know how to shake the feeling.

[Beevee]

Hi Daisy! Sorry you are feeling on edge after doing so well. This is normal so do not get disheartened. Recovery from anxiety is not linear. It's not a smooth trajectory and very much an up and down affair. My advice is to let those feelings be there and not to do anything to try and shake them off. I learnt that the harder I tried to stop feeling a certain way, the worse I got so I gave up trying. My anxiety faded away. Doing nothing works.

[emmi331]

How do you beat up a ham? LolBut seriously, when my anxiety began to calm down, even with the help of medication I still would have brief "shadows" of my old anxiety. Mornings and evenings seemed to make me more susceptible to this. But as Beevee pointed out, this is not unusual. "Time takes time."🌻