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Severe depression can overwhelm us and leave us feeling out of control. It feels as though we are driven to act like this, strengthens with every 'attack' and leads to constant searching for reasons and answers. Involving self-doubt, insecurity and fear, depression can appear too powerful to deal with. However, there is a way to understand this problem that takes away much of its power - to know what is really happening to us with severe depression and why we get it. And with this insight it is possible to cure depression naturally ourselves, without deep therapy or medication; to stop it completely and permanently at its very core. We cannot fight the unknown ... The key to curing anxiety problems (depression actually revolves around constant anxiety) lies in understanding how they work. Like everything in life, when we know how and why something works we know how to master it. To try and overcome these problems without this understanding is exceptionally difficult for whatever we may try, as soon as any symptoms occur, we think that it's not working, that it cannot be the answer and continue the never-ending search for the 'real answer'. For example: A certain kind of self-doubt lies at the heart of all anxiety problems, ranging from nervousness and panic to OCD and depression. When we truly understand this self-doubt (what it is and how we get it) we can cure the very cause of these problems and be really free. *****
THE ANSWER TO EVERY SINGLE ANXIETY-RELATED PROBLEM THERE IS, (incl. DEPRESSION) LIES IN MOVING THROUGH THIS SELF-DOUBT INTO SELF-CONFIDENCE. AND TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS, WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AND WHY. Let's look more closely at Depression. Depression: An intangible pressure and feelings of not being able to cope with life events - involving frustration and despair. Bearing the heavy weight of responsiblity (and it can actually feel like a weight on our shoulders or a cloud above us) for negative events and feeling that we have no hope of coping with them. Often accompanied by tiredness and body aches, lethargy and procrastination, even our immune system becomes depressed, and may result in constant colds, flu's and viruses. Anxiety disorders may or may not involve depression (most do eventually due to prolonged feelings of helplessness) - BUT ALL DEPRESSION INVOLVES ANXIETY. |
 Evolving Self-Confidence  Help for anxiety related problems _______________ |
| . | Anxiety: Anxiety is a protection mechanism that has evolved over millions of years; it serves to warn us that we are about to be hurt and to prepare us for action. It does this in 2 main ways:- 1. Our thoughts: We think about potential situations before we get to them - the greatest form of protection is not to get into the situation in the first place. This is something seen in many anxiety-related problems, where we will often avoid situations that make us feel afraid. 2. Our Body: Prepares us for action: the fight-or-flight response. We are charged with energy ready to fight or flee. This response is responsible for all the physical symptoms of anxiety that we experience. . |
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Anxiety stems from potential dangers and threat. It is an energizer, a 'warning system' to prepare us for action, either mentally (to plan) or physically (to fight or flee). When we feel that we have no control, everything is a threat and a potential danger and we are constantly anxious. When life experiences make us feel that we cannot do anything, that everything we try fails, we have little control over anything and become constantly anxious, preparing to take action. Yet even to try is useless, nothing we do works ... and so the despair, frustration and helplessness increase. Everybody gets depressed (to some degree) ... Life throws many things at us that gives us the right to be depressed. Grief, loss, frustration and disappointment reflect our helplessness regarding many life experiences, such things as: death of a loved one, illness or incapacity, relationship and work problems demonstrate our lack of control. Indeed, some feel that the beliefs of mildy depressed people actually reflect reality - the struggle, loss, pain and effort of life. Perhaps they do, but there is a situation where depression goes much deeper. The helplessness and hopelessness become inextricably linked to that certain kind of self- doubt and when this happens, depression is not just about sadnesss and anxiety, it becomes much, much more. Severe depression embraces hopelessness and fear, imobilizing fear. This self-doubt ... the more we have, the greater our anxiety and depression. *****
When we look closely at anxiety-related problems, we see that they are not:- • Diseases • Mental illness • Due to chemical imbalance • Caused by our genes Indeed, these problems are not even 'disorders' (our mind and body are totally ordered in what they are trying to do) and they most certainly aren't irrational - they exist for the most rational reason there will ever be ... our survival. They are mainly caused by our life experiences (and, in a small part: genetics) and we can map out step-by-step, exactly how we get them. Anxiety and panic are there to protect us. If this protection doesn't work, anxiety disorders and/or chronic depression can develop. All these problems reflect our inner-self's attempts to protect us - to protect us because of how we feel about ourselves. ... once we understand this, there is a real cure. |
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