Hi overthere,

Welcome to the site! I hope you don't think of it as "starting over" because you should be able to build on the therapy you had before which was so helpful. I like to tell my clients that treatment is a years-long race to be run, with only the first leg of the race in therapy. You get tools for the journey - how to think differently, how to relax, how to desensitize to the phobia. But then you have to go and live your life. Have some close calls, be near other sick people, get sick yourself perhaps. And continue with the tools. If you just sort of finish therapy, go away and forget it (which I did once as well) then yes, it's likely to rear its ugly head again when your anxiety goes up in general (family crisis, illness, catching something - even moving or having a baby). So think of it as "review!" It shouldn't take as long as before.

Good luck!