How To Cope With Financial Stress
How To Cope
With Financial Stress And
Relieve The Pressure
- by Chris Green
(c) Chris Green - All Rights reserved
http://www.conqueringstress.com
A few weeks ago, I
was searching for a few things online and I came across one more
site providing information about how to cope with financial
stress and anxiety that is wholly incorrect and will
therefore not help sufferers to find relief. Briefly, the
website made the following assertion:
"The majority of people who are suffering from stress, anxiety
and depression are doing so because they are enduring
difficulties with their finances. Debt is a big problem for a
lot of people, and many struggle to service debts because they
are on a low income. Being out of work, financial need and low
self-esteem due to falling short of monetary expectations are
additional issues. Money is one of the biggest causes of stress
and depression in the Western world."
I've come across this sort of information in both the online and
offline worlds, from health counselors and therapists to
sufferers. Identifying money as being at the root cause of
stressful illnesses is something you've heard too and from a
variety of people, undoubtedly.
To state that the root cause of stressful illnesses lies in
concerns over money is not accurate, in fact, it is completely
false. Financial circumstances, no matter what they are, CANNOT
cause you to become stressed, depressed and anxious. In fact,
they have NOTHING to do with the root cause of these problems
WHATSOEVER.
It is so easily proved it's amazing that some people believe
otherwise.
Let's ask a question:
If money issues and impoverishment are the root cause of stress,
depression and anxiety, then is it true to say that all people
who have concerns with finances or who is at the low end of the
wage scale will therefore become a sufferer of stress and
related illnesses? The bottom line with this claim is that if
one is poor, one must suffer from a stressful illness. Agreed?
Additionally, one can apply logic to also state:
If you are wealthy, without debt and earning a high income, you
cannot be depressed, stressed or anxious because the root cause
doesn't exist in your life. You have money so you don't need to
know how to cope with financial stress, right?
In a nutshell: Being poor causes mental trauma. Being well off
doesn't.
Reality clearly does not bear this out.
All of the people who are finding it difficult to manage their
debts, are on a low income and dealing with money problems
aren't suffering from a stressful illness. Indeed, many people
throughout the world live in extreme poverty and yet they're
happy. And, just as I have, you probably know or have known
people who don't have much in life and they're happy.
And immunity from stress, depression and anxiety is not given to
people who have found fame and fortune. Elton John, Marie
Osmond, Mark Twain, Britney Spears to list just a few examples.
When I was at my darkest point with depression, I had paid off
the mortgage, was completely debt-free and had accumulated
savings.
I couldn't have cared less about any of it.
That last sentence illustrates how self-esteem has nothing to do
with being financially solvent. I drove a $25,000 sports car,
owned two houses outright and had many investments and yet I
felt life had nothing for me, that having lost everyone and
everything I ever loved I'd completely ruined my life beyond
repair and I just couldn't take anymore.
So you can see, financial hardship does not and cannot cause you
to become stressed, depressed or anxious. And financial success
doesn't mean that you'll be free from mental trauma. That's
because the root cause as to why anyone enters into an episode
of stress, depression and anxiety is because they perform
flawed, harmful modes of thinking to make sense out of the
circumstances they are faced with.
Tackle these harmful modes of thought that cause people to
become stressed, depressed and anxious and you will take a major
step towards eliminating these problems from your life, whether
you're down to your last penny or your last million.
Discover how to manage stress -
not just how to cope with financial stress but all forms of
stress and depression and anxiety, effectively and completely
naturally so you kick them all out of your life forever
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