Dear Lindsey:

Feeling anxious and having the same type of thoughts that cause anxiety is a habit-of-the-mind. The brain habitually thinks the same kinds of thoughts and habitually it releases chemicals that bring about the uncomfortable anxiety. So nothing special needs to happen in any particular day for an anxious person to feel anxious yet again.

It takes a lot of practice and patience to calm down this habitual anxiety and very slowly build a different kind of habit of the mind, that of calm.

I will be away from the computer for a while. I hope you feel better already, or soon enough.

anita