Anxiety and Panic Attack Recovery - Setbacks

Why do setbacks happen during anxiety recovery?

There could be any number of reasons. Something could have unconsciously jogged your memory and sent your anxiety up, you could have tried to tackle something new and felt overwhelming anxiety, you could have felt a new kind of anxiety that you hadnt felt before. Either way, some symptoms came up and you thought Aaaah, I dont know how to deal with this!. Most people get setbacks at some point in their recovery and they nearly all think the same thing: Oh no! Im back where I started. Ill never get over this!

Are setbacks permanent?

Not on your nelly. They are a time for you to look back at your achievements, and at your therapies, and assess what went wrong in order to find a solution. Understandably, it can be a depressing time. But it shouldnt be! You will bounce back and more than likely gain a lot of new ground based on your knew learnings and insights. With anxiety/panic/phobias as with life, the darkest hour is just before dawn.

What should you do when you have a setback? \r Stay focussed. Youve been here before and you will deal with it. Is it as bad as you think?

Re-establish previous patterns of behaviour. Gently, and starting with something easy, do a few of the things youd worked on before the setback and felt comfortable with, just to show yourself you still can. Dont worry if you feel a touch more anxious during this time, thats your background anxiety level going up, it will pass.

Do more of what you were doing before. It was obviously working.

Look for alternatives to compliment your previous strategies. Perhaps now is the time to look for the route cause, if you have been focussing on a Cognitive Behavioural method, or look at your current symptoms if you have been concentrating on the cause. Perhaps the manner of the setback can give you clues as to what your core fears are. Discuss them with your therapist/confident.

Pat yourself on the back. The fact that youve had a setback means you were really striving for success with your anxiety or phobia. Well done!

Look out for my follow up articles where I discuss other issues to getting over anxiety, panic attacks and phobias. I will post details on www.anxiety2calm.com, where all information is given away for free.

I am an ex-anxiety sufferer campaigning against expensive gimmicks targeted at vulnerable anxiety sufferers by cynical businessmen. I set up http://www.anxiety2calm.com to examine various therapies, techniques and gimmicks sold as a cure for anxiety, panic attacks and phobias. I also have sections on meditation, EFT / TFT, Journey Therapy, and much much more.

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