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For many sufferers, depression brings on feelings of guilt
and shame and
because of these feelings, they will not seek
treatment for depression. But
are these feelings valid?
Lack of understanding about depression both in
sufferers and
non-sufferers - clouds the issue.
Let's see how you can end the stigma associated with
depression so you
can take the first step towards treating
depression naturally.
1. The majority of people in our society experience
psychological problems
during their lives: Problems from
childhood with parents and siblings; stress
at work; marital
breakdown; losing loved ones and of course, making mistakes.
Very few people go through life without experiencing mental
trauma of some
description. So there's nothing odd or unique
happening here, indeed,
depressive illnesses are as common
as colds. More than 20 million sufferers
in the USA every
year bear this out.
2. These are real illnesses. There's no stigma associated
with diabetes, asthma,
or allergies for example, so why
should there be with these? Just like the
above illnesses,
depression, anxiety and stress have specific causes that can
be addressed. You wouldn't think an asthma sufferer could
just "snap out of it",
yet many people say this to
depression and anxiety sufferers. Lack of
understanding
again causes such a reaction and it is the reaction that is
wrong,
not the sufferer.
3. Suffering a depressive episode is not your fault so why
feel guilty? You
didn't wake up one morning and think
"right, I know, I'll become anxious from
now on". It doesn't
happen like that. No one CHOOSES depression, it can happen
to people just like many illnesses do. And now - as in other
illnesses - major
advances in treating depression, stress and
anxiety have been made and they're
not incurable. But
not one sufferer is to blame. You wouldn't blame someone who
hadn't been taught to read or write, you wouldn't blame
someone who suffered
from hay fever so why blame yourself
and feel guilty because you're suffering a
stressful
illness?
4. If you own a car and it's broken down you go to a
mechanic. If you fall and
break your arm, you go to casualty
to get it repaired. If you have toothache you go
to a
dentist to get it sorted. Stress, depression and anxiety can also
be
fixed, so
don't let guilt or shame stop you from getting
help. Just as a broken arm can be
mended, just as toothache can
cured, there is now effective treatment for
depression, anxiety
and stress so these can be fixed too.
5. Many sufferers believe that treating depression is a
futile exercise because once
you have depression, you have
it for life. This simply isn't true and the depression
itself feeds this feeling of helplessness. And believing
that depression is incurable
further exacerbates the
feelings of guilt and shame and fuels the depression.
Depression has a specific cause and this root cause can be
effectively treated so
that depression can be beaten once
and for all.
6. Change the way you look at these problems. I know from
experience that at
the time, stressful illnesses can be
overwhelming and you can't see a way out or
how anything
good can come of it. But now, I'm glad I had that 5-year
period
because I've come out of it stronger. I learned how
to beat depression and deal
with the very trying
circumstances I was faced with. I now know how to cope with
the various trials and tribulations life throws at all of us
and those 5 years of
depression and anxiety have given me a
greater understanding about myself and
others. Sure I hated
it at the time. But by treating depression naturally and
learning
how depression had entered my life, I became stronger than my
depression. One thing that really helped me was to change
the way I thought about
what was happening to me. Instead of
thinking it was something that no good could
ever come from,
I looked at it as something that was going to help me to
become
stronger. What helped me to think this way was
discovering how many other people
used their illnesses and
disabilities to do something positive with their lives. I
realized that the same principle could be applied to
stressful and depressive illnesses
and that they too can be
used in a positive way.
The above points clearly demonstrate that the stigmas
associated with depressive
and stressful illnesses are
completely false and I hope you use them to help you get
started on treating depression, stress, and anxiety.
Until next time.
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