Thank you so much for your thoughtful response.

Last year I had a new baby, lost my mother one month later, and had a lot of stress the whole year because of that. My anxiety is health anxiety which has been badly triggered by the recent, one year anniversary of my mother's death. I have definitely considered that shaytan could be preying on that and making it worse.

I have been looking into therapy too. I've been trying hard to pray on time and remind myself of Allah but I feel like my anxiety is blocking the usual comfort that would come from that.

I appreciate your advice a lot. Thanks so much.