Nowadays especially in the 21st Century, it is predicted that stress related
illnesses such as anxiety and depression will become the biggest killers to
human being. Despite significant advances in housing, standards of living,
quality of food, and medical science, the pressures all of us have to face in
today's world are as demanding as any pressures experienced by our
predecessors.
Why are these illnesses on the rise? And why do some people become so sick
through these illnesses, they can find it hard to function?
Well they sure don't happen overnight! You don't suddenly wake up one morning
and feel stressed or depressed. It is not like flicking on a light switch! And
by the same rule, if you're suffering, you can't just wake up one morning, flick
off the switch and say am I feel better now? Many people who don't suffer from
these illnesses often say to sufferers.
If only it was so easy! Should anyone say this to you, please forgive them as
it's just a lack of understanding. It's very hard for people to understand how
you're feeling if they haven't been reach the same level. The fact that these
illnesses don't suddenly happen means we can draw some parallels with illnesses
such as heart diseases, some cancers and strokes.
Because these illnesses don't just suddenly happen either.
If we look at heart disease, it's often the result of damaging behaviors
practised over many years. Behaviors such as smoking, lack of exercise and a
abnormal diet high in saturated fat. Strokes are a result of similar behaviors
and cancers too, specially heavy smoking and drinking as you knew. So how do
stressful illnesses such as stress, depression and anxiety compare to?
For many of us, feelings of distress remain constant companions: About 19
million Americans suffer from serious anxiety conditions like
obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia, reports the National Institute
of Mental Health, while virtually everyone else deals with less debilitating but
still harmful levels of anxiety.
Stress is also the product of harmful mental habits and behaviors. These
habits and behaviors are developed and practised over years since childhood in
most of the cases.
Think of it like learning to drive a car. Initially, the skills required to
control the vehicle needed conscious thought. It seemed really difficult didn't
it? But once we're performed them for sufficient periods, we drive as an
auto-pilot. We're mastered the required skills by repetition.
Here're the key: if we eat healthy food, take regular exercise, cut out
harmful behaviors such as smoking and drinking, we improve our health and
drastically reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and strokes. We are
repeating good habits, habits that will give our physical well being a huge
boost.
It's exactly the same for stress. What's important to understand is that not
everyone becomes stressed or depressed even when tragic and traumatic
circumstances happen to them. Just like people who lead a healthy lifestyle and
avoid harmful habits and behaviors, people don't become stressed or depressed
because they have learned effective habits and behaviors that prevent stress
from arising.
This is very good news if you suffer from these illnesses. Because just as we
can learn habits and behaviors which cause us to become highly-stressed,
depressed or anxious, we can learn the habits and behaviors which stop these
terrible illnesses in their tracks. And the more often we make use of them,
we're soon begin to perform them automatically and our mental health will
benefit tremendously.
No more feeling stressed out. No more feeling unable to deal with somebody.
No more anxiety and no more depression.
I'm living proof of this. For more than 5 years, different kind of traumatic
events sent me spiralling into an anxiety-induced depression nightmare. I came
out of it by learning the natural skills that starve these illnesses. The more I
used them, the less anxious I became. They're now as natural to me as driving a
car, and I am completely eradicated anxiety and depression from my life.
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Dr.Craig Richard (Community Health Councils)
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