Can I recover from anxiety?

YES, you can.

Anxiety isn’t something we need to be afraid of. It’s a normal response to believing something could harm us. In fact, being afraid is a vital part of the body’s survival mechanism. We become afraid when we believe we, or someone or something we care about, could be in harm’s way.

The problem is that overly anxious personalities perceive danger more often and to higher degrees than those who aren’t as anxious. It’s this overly anxious behaviour that causes problems with anxiety in our lives.

Once again, anxiety is not bad, a disease or illness we develop, contract, or are born with. Anxiety results when we behave in an apprehensive manner. If we don’t want to be anxious, we need to learn to behave less apprehensively.

While the negative effects of acute or chronic anxiety may feel like a random, unknown, and uncontrollable disease, there’s a lot you can do to successfully address problematic anxiety. The problem is that most people don’t understand anxiety or know how to address it.

Anxiety disorders appear for specific reasons and have definite reasons why they persist. Once these reasons are identified and properly addressed, anxiety disorders, along with their sensations and symptoms, can be alleviated 

Anxiety disorders persist only because the underlying factors that cause them aren’t properly addressed. That’s why those who take medication as their only form of treatment generally remain on medication long term, or find themselves going on and coming off over and over again. Until the underlying factors – the behaviors that create apprehensiveness - are properly addressed, anxiety and its sensations and symptoms generally persist.