This anxiety habit, mindset, condition, call it what you will, is a tricky thing. Just when you think you are making good progress something comes up and seems to set you right back.
For me it was having to get up at 3.30am for a one off job that set me back. It was the worry of not getting enough sleep which of course became a self fulfilling prophecy, which triggered anxiety which led to yet more sleepless nights which led to more waking up up early in a state of high anxiety.
It's crazy really, my intellectual brain knows I should not worry about sleep, or most other things for that matter, especially when in bed trying to sleep. But try telling that to my primitive limbic brain when it's running riot in my head, releasing cortisol and adrenalin at the drop of a hat.
A life time of the bad habit of letting my limbic brain be in control is not going to change as quickly as i would like!
For me, when i am in suffering anxiety and panic and ultimately depression, I want to reach for the pill cabinet for some magic pill that will make it all better. unfortunately that has not been invented yet. so in the mean time I guess we are stuck with the slow process of retraining our brains , to un-learn those bad ways of processing information, and to slowly, learn that we are in fact ok!
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