Dear Shae03:

Reads to me like you are on the right track, from exercising after work to attending therapy. The revelation, you wrote, that the origin of your anxiety is in your childhood is new to you and you are starting to put the dots together. This is a process that takes time and if you persist in it, your mental health and quality of life will improve a whole lot as a result.

When we review our lives and evaluate how we feel, we only have our own experience to compare. Maybe you didn’t feel as anxious for some time before the abusive relationship you had, so you thought you were not anxious at all and that you were confident before. Because in comparison to post-relationship you were less anxious and less troubled.

Keep connecting the dots, give it time, it is a long term process.

anita