83. Assurance Good. Reassurance Bad! (The Anxious Morning)
Channel: The Anxious Truth
Date: 2022-04-27

Assurance is not a bad thing.  It can be productive.  Especially for someone new to the recovery process and new to disordered anxiety, access to accurate information and clarity about what’s going on is critical.  Knowing that anxiety can feel like a heart attack or that fearing a psychotic break doesn’t make one possible is a needed step early on.  Getting assurance is learning.  Providing assurance is educating.  Technically in our community we’d probably call it psycho education and its usually a major part of therapy at the start of the process.

Things start to veer into the wrong lane when assurance seeking becomes repetitive and automatic. There’s a reason we call it REassurance. 

This is The Anxious Morning for April 27, 2022
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