Attacking Anxiety and DepressionAttacking Anxiety and Depression There are many causes for our anxiety, stress, and depression. There can be purely medical causes for these conditions, and there can be biological causes. In attacking anxiety and depression we need to find its source, and look past the symptoms, and we need to understand the difference between the two. Some sources might be genetic: If there is a predominant personality type in the family, it can pass on from parent to child, as in the case of many bipolar disorder cases, both by learned and biological means. In this manner, these conditions of depression and anxiety can pass on over generations. Attacking anxiety in this case would mean the family becoming aware of their tendency for stress and compensate accordingly. Outside counseling would be necessary to provide new viewpoint and perspective.
A similar situation is when it may be passed on by mostly learned values, which we call cultural, as in the case of an outlook on life that the parent has, which they teach the child. In this manner, the child learns to live in the world that their parent, grand parents, and even their great grandparents created for them, and not they themselves.
The children learn how to look at themselves and their role in their world environment as their parent sees things. Parents teach their children what they can do, and what is not okay for them to do. The way of attacking anxiety and depression here is to introduce the child or sufferer to more positive ways of thinking, and to respectfully question negative values. Often times these abilities taught have little to do with what the child’s natural capabilities are, but more to do with what the parent sees as proper for the child to believe they can do. There can be a big difference! The first step in attacking anxiety and depression from these sources is to understand what our true capabilities are, and what our capabilities that our parents allow us to do are. The way for attacking anxiety and depression here is with questioning if our parents' limitations are indeed our own.
The true source of your problem might surprise you. Unmet emotional needs from lack of nurturement and understanding are the biggest single cause of all depression and anxiety, in our opinion. Unmet emotional needs, if left unaddressable, will later cause medical and biological imbalances, as well as addictions which will further increase the problem. The foundation for attacking anxiety and depression is to work on the unmet emotional needs first, than add medical treatment later if the emotional sense of well-being does not correct the medical imbalance on its own. Unmet emotional needs, also if not understood, will cause financial and material scarcity as well, as we overlook our natural outlets for our talents and lose desire to put out our best efforts in building our lives. We will also spend more of our funds on addictions such as coffee, alcohol, cigarettes, gambling and even drugs, pornography and sex. The first thing we need to know for attacking and depression is we have an emotional side, and that emotional side cannot be ignored. Anxiety and depression are different. Anxiety is from stress from perceived threat from our environment, and depression is emotional fatigue and hopelessness. Those who suffer from anxiety are not cowards and those who suffer from depression are not weak, neither sufferers are inferior, although they may feel low self esteem because they blame themselves. Next: Think about the Good Things in Our Past and The Biology of Our Brain
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Barry Joe McDonagh is the creator of the Panic Away Program. A native of Ireland, he first published the program back in 2001 after completing his undergraduate at UCD. Panic Away has since been sold in over 32 countries worldwide and has gone on to become one of the most successful courses for treating panic attacks and general anxiety today.
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