An Anxiety Free Day Makes the Following Day A Challenge

Logically you would think that having a day free of anxiety would make the next day anxiety free as well, however this rarely is the case for me. The day after an anxiety free day is filled with an extreme amount of anxiety and pressure to be as good or better than the day before. “I felt so great yesterday, today I’m going to feel even better.” That pressure to be better than yesterday puts me on a slippery slope to disaster. With the first thing that goes wrong, I quickly start to question everything. “Yesterday was a fluke, I’m bound to be sick forever.”

On days like these it is important for me to remember to:

• be fully present in every moment and experience
• complete my CBT exercises in writing
• eat, exercise and slow my breathing down