I think the simplest answer that empowers you to understand and make decisions is this. Healing happens best when symptoms free. If you do something that causes a return of symptoms but those symptoms only last a hour, then who cares if you have delayed recovery by a hour. If you do something that sets you back for the next whole day, then that activity may be starting to push it but delaying recovery by only a day is still not a big deal. The anxiety of dealing with that bad day may last much longer and be problematic.

So, if you do something that causes a return of symptoms but those symptoms only last a few hours but your anxiety about that short return of symptoms has you spinning for a week, then you need to either not repeat that activity or at least not repeat that activity until you have found ways to resolve the follow up anxiety.

Is this answering your question ?



Anxiety can be worse than the minor return of symptoms.