How To Relieve Stress, Anxiety & Depression

How To Relieve Stress, Anxiety & Depression

- by Chris Green

(c) Chris Green - All Rights reserved
http://www.conqueringstress.com

In this article, you'll see how everyday language can fuel stress, depression
and anxiety and you'll find 3 ways to help you relieve stress, anxiety and
depression very quickly.

One of the most common flawed modes of behavior performed by every
 sufferer who enters into a harrowing episode of stress, depression or anxiety
 concerns the words they use to describe situations and events they are
confronted with. In using powerful, emotive words, sufferers will trigger the
fear response and the more they use such words, the worse their suffering
gets.

Powerful, emotive words are part of everybody's vocabulary. Sometimes, we
use powerful words when we lose our temper or we become angry and
 frustrated. In this state, we give vent to our feelings and the emotions within
 us have an outlet.

This is fine. For most people, once their emotions have been expressed, they
return to their usual selves and life carries on as normal.

But it doesn't work like this if you are prone to stress, depression or anxiety.

In these states, sufferers will react negatively to every event they are
confronted with in their lives. One of the negative reactions concerns using
powerful and emotive words that can make even the most insignificant of events
a major problem. Words can and do have that much power and I'm now going to
show you how this works with three of the worst words  you can use to assign
meanings to events.

They are:

Nothing, everything and never.

For example, let's say your relationship with your spouse breaks down. Here's
how using the above words can trigger stress, depression or anxiety:

"Well that's it. EVERYTHING has gone wrong in my life. I'm NOTHING without
him/her and I know I'll NEVER be happy ever again."

Can you see how flawed this highly emotive reaction is and can you see how these
words - seemingly innocuous by themselves - have made one event a major,
stressful episode by assigning a catastrophic meaning to your whole life?

To avoid arousing such fearful emotions, here are three better, much less emotive
words you can use to relieve stress, depression and anxiety:

For everything, use ONLY.
For never, use TEMPORARY.
For nothing, use SOME.

So let's use these words to find a less intense meaning to the event in our example,
the breakdown of an intimate relationship:

"OK, my relationship is over, but it ONLY affects my love life. SOME things will
change but other areas of my life - my work, my friendships, my hobbies and my
social life will carry on as normally as possible. I'm hurting now, but this is
TEMPORARY and things will get better in due course."

Can you see how using different words can dramatically reduce the impact and
make much clearer sense of the event? This is exactly why some people never
enter into a stressful, depressive or anxious episode even when they are faced with
the  most trying of circumstances, such as relationship breakdown.

Everything, nothing and never are just three of the emotive words used by sufferers.
There are many more - including expletives that are far too strong to use here - but
 if you use the three alternatives I've given in this article, you will relieve stress,
anxiety and depression very quickly

Be aware of the words you use to assign meanings - mind your language!

See you soon.

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