I first started experiencing GAD and pure-O when I was a teenager, not knowing what it was for quite some time. Then, my early 20s, it seemed like it all went away for a number of years. Sure I would feel stress and bits of anxiety but nothing like my teenage years. The pure-O symptoms never really went away during that time.

Fast forward to my mid 30s and I suddenly one day experienced one of the worst attacks I can remember. Since then, my GAD and pure-O has been on and off, as in out of control to managed and calm.

I’m curious if anyone else goes for long periods of time cool as a cucumber only to relapse for days, weeks, months, or longer. How have you dealt with it? Do you feel it’s possible to be past this for good or do you feel it’s something that will always be around, in varying degrees, simply due to how our minds work?

Thanks in advance.