Anti Anxiety Toolbox

There is no such thing as a relapse with anxiety.

We often expect that once we start implementing the anxiety tools and starting to feel better, that we are supposed to only get better and better.

We have to remember that just because we are beginning to fight against anxiety, it does not mean that all our human emotions will cease to exist. We are still human and have to experience our emotional spectrums. So we will still have moments where we feel negative and not so great.

We do not have to see these moments as a relapse but a normal experience in life.

We often get into the expectation that once we start to get control of our anxiety that we must never feel anxious again or have a bad day. This perception leads to us falling hard when we have setbacks even minor ones. It also leads to us catastrophising the setback and into our vicious cycles again. We then feel as if we've gone back to the start.

Once we start to gain control of our anxiety, there are no relapses. Because now we have gained all our tools that have led us out of the anxiety. So when we have anxious moments or bad days, we can just take this lightly, knowing it will be short-lived and apply our many tools.

We got this guys. We are not relapsing but are better equipped to handle the setbacks.