5 Self Help Steps
For Depression, Anxiety & Stress Relief
5 Self Help Steps For Depression, Anxiety & Stress Relief
- by Chris Green
(c) Chris Green - All Rights reserved
http://www.conqueringstress.com
Around 18 million US citizens suffer from stress, depression
and anxiety every
year and for many of them, understanding
why they endure the torment is
difficult to establish. This
is because of the many "magic bullet myths"
associated with
these problems. Here are five self help steps that will bring
rapid
depression, anxiety and stress relief along with the root
cause
as to why
stress, anxiety and depression arise.
1. Chemical imbalances within the brain. This is a theory
with no proven clinical
evidence to support it. The theory
alleges that low levels of certain
neurotransmitters in the
brain cause people to suffer from anxiety, stress or
depression. Drug therapy is used to treat the imbalance. But
there is no test to
establish levels of these chemicals
before patients are prescribed drugs and
therefore, no way
of knowing which chemicals are depleted and which ones
aren't. So there's no way of measuring success either.
Another issue: Over
seventy percent of people who stop
taking antidepressants enter into second
and further
episodes of stress, anxiety or depression. For another one
third, they
are totally ineffective. But if chemical
imbalances haven't been proven to cause
these problems, why
are they being treated?
2. Nutritionally deficient diet, either not eating enough
fresh food or eating way
too much junk food. There are many
people throughout the world who don't eat
a good diet. Most
of our forefathers would've struggled to eat the recommended
5 portions of fruit and vegetables every day. Does this mean
all of these people
suffered from stress, depression or
anxiety? Highly unlikely. And I know people
whose diet is
largely junk and they don't suffer from stress, depression
or anxiety.
Also, does it mean that everybody who eats a
nutritionally sound diet won't suffer
from these problems?
Again, and I include myself in this, there are people who
eat a balanced, nutritionally sound diet but suffer from
stress, depression or
anxiety. Why?
3. Toxins. The premise here is that as our air is polluted,
containing harmful,
poisonous or toxic chemicals, the air we
breathe is causing more and more people
to enter into
stressful or depressive episodes. If that is the case, then
everybody
who lives in a modern city - New York, LA, Tokyo,
Athens, Paris, London,
Mexico City, Rome, Berlin, Chicago,
Moscow, etc. - must all be enduring the misery
of mental
torment because each of them breathe the same polluted air.
Is this so?
Of course not. And by the same rule, does it
mean that if you live outside polluted
cities, in coastal
towns or villages in the beautiful countryside etc. - then
you're
immune from mental trauma? Certainly it does not.
4. Trauma. This means that if you encounter a traumatic
event, say death of a loved
one, or moving home or
relationship breakdown for example, such an event can
cause
stress, depression or anxiety. But such events happen to
every human being
and not all of them become depressed. This
means that events cannot cause these
problems, but the way
we respond to them can.
5. Genetics. If your parents suffered these problems, you
will too. This does hold a
little truth. Because while there
is no genetic link to these problems, you can learn
the
modes of behavior that cause these problems from them
throughout childhood.
So, if your parents reacted to events
in their lives that caused them to be stressed,
depressed or
anxious, you will learn them too. The good news is that just
as you
learned them you can unlearn them.
The problem with all of the above is that they shift focus
from outside yourself to
try and find a "magic bullet"
(drugs, diet, events, genetics, toxins) when the
answer to
them lies within yourself. None of the above can cause
depression and
therefore, you cannot find a cure by
addressing them. The best self help for
depression, stress
and anxiety is done by treating the root cause and that root
cause
lies in the way you make sense out of everything in your
life.
Once the root cause has been successfully addressed using a
combination of
knowledge, understanding and personal skills,
stress, depression and anxiety will
never cause you anguish
ever again.
Click Here Now to get started right away on
kicking stress, depression and anxiety out of your life forever
so you can enjoy a brighter, happier future!
**Resource Box**
Former anxiety sufferer Chris Green is the author of
"Conquering Stress", the
internationally acclaimed
anxiety, stress
and depression self help book that will
show you how to permanently
conquer stress,
depression and anxiety without
taking powerful drugs.
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