Unless there is an unexpected curve ball, such as an accident or sudden illness, it doesn't really *just* pop up inside my personal yaddahs, It is my awareness which suddenly pops up. My anxieties accumulate until they reach a breaking point and suddenly I can't turn off my awareness of those accumulations. The work-a-day grind is one of those prime spots for accumulation and spontaneous combustions within those accumulations.

But that is me and it's okay if ^it^ didn't make much sense to you.

Continued support while you sort what ^it^ is for you.

Anxiety waxes and wanes for no apparent reason. Over the course of my own journey, I have stopped expecting my anxiety to follow a progressive path toward recovery. There are good days and bad days. We would have them if we didn’t have anxiety, we just aren’t aware of it right now. Everybody has good and bad days. Recovery is like peeling an onion, just when you think you have made significant progress with a layer, up pops another layer to be dealt with. That’s the way it goes. The bright side is to look at it with a positive mentality(I know it’s hard). It’s just another layer of recovery that we need to face and deal with, more opportunity to tame the dragon within to reach the end goal. And while we are at it, we continue to learn so much more than we anticipated about what we are experiencing. Making our future recovery more solid.

Thanks for your responses. I try really hard to be gentle with myself by I am also my own worst critic. I have had minimal anxiety for 6 years and then it came back in August. I am working on it and thankful for the good days, just find I brace myself for the next time I feel crappy again.

I don't know for sure---I've been going through this....I am blaming hormones...I went to get a relaxing massage yesterday and out of nowhere I got the oddest feelings--like I was claustrophobic and needed to run off the table into the street.. I am not claustrophobic at all really---I get regular massages. My massage therapist said it was because I'd been in fight or flight for so long, my anxiety "pedal" was stuck in the on position.

Stop. Pause. Breathe. Choice. Repeat until calm.

This will help you reset the level for your balance.

It's like the high and low tide and the moon cycle-your anxiety moves naturally.

Being gentle with yourself really does help.