I personally have always found the best way to deal with anxiety is to live in the present & work through the things that come up now & push through it successfully than trying to re-create the past. That is how I deal with all my anxieties. If a past anxiety reoccures in the present.....then I deal with it & work through it in the NOW. I do not have time or energy to live in the past cause today brings enough of it's own issues into life