While it feels so good initially to be rid of that troublesome family, over time, cutoff, like all the other relationship patterns, creates anxiety. Anxiety, as we have seen, leads to symptoms. In the long term anxiety sets in, in the form of depression or other symptoms. It will not be seen as related to the cutoff from family. In the first place, the cutoff felt so good. Secondly, the symptom’s onset is often far removed in time from the beginning of the cutoff, so the logical connection is not made.
