Dear Christy Lim:

Anxiety is a very unpleasant feeling, very distressing. You were probably anxious earlier in life.  Certain life circumstances make the anxiety worse. The more anxious we are, the more we think and over-think (the brain tries to find a solution to the problem that causes anxiety, so to resolve the anxiety, and not finding a solution- or not detecting the problem- it keeps thinking and thinking…)

The fear (which is what anxiety is about) is kind of … stuck in your brain, circulating there, gone for just a little while and then it is back. Time alone will not cause the fear to get unstuck, so to speak. Competent, quality psychotherapy, focusing on your anxiety problem, can help you greatly in gaining insight to the origin of your anxiety as well as learning skills to manage it, to lower it, and re-train your brain, causing that fear to get unstuck.

anita