The key here was to allow myself to fall into my deepest suffering without feeling the need to fix, change or suppress it, only then would I be truly allowing.

Rather than searching for recovery or demanding it, you have let it come to you.

We can only recover by no longer creating the anxiety and then allowing ourselves to go through the process of healing the past suffering we have created.

Live your normal life alongside anxiety, accept the thoughts and let them be in the background.

You now see that avoiding, suppressing or protecting yourself from it just isn't working.

What he has done is go towards his feelings of anxiety/dread and not let them stop him living his life. Not only that, but he truly believed that this would work in the long run.

If you are a constant worrier, perfectionist or think that life should always follow your rules and get stressed if it doesn't, then a real change is needed.

The truth is that it’s not you that is thinking about your anxiety; it’s your mind’s habit to continually think about the subject.

If I learnt one valuable lesson, it is that we were never put on this earth to suffer and that suffering is our alarm call. It is telling us that what we are doing is not serving us in life and that a change is needed.