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Treating Depression

Treating Depression - Ending Depression Stigma

- by Chris Green

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

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 and makes treating depression
so much harder.

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 but understanding that these are real illnesses with specific
causes is key to treating depression.

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, treating depression, anxiety and stress
is no different and all of them can be 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. In fact addressing the root cause
is key to treating depression effectively.

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 and know they can be cured.

Until next time.

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