How Anxiety Grows Through Avoidance and How Therapy Helps Break the Cycle

Anxiety can have a way of quietly reshaping daily life, sometimes we don’t even notice it at first, other times it comes barreling in. Sometimes it starts small, like a skipped phone call, a delayed conversation, or a place you stop going to. Over time, anxiety narrows your world without you realizing it. What began as self-protection slowly becomes self-limitation.