In life we experience emotional ups and downs that often pass in weeks or months.
Long term depression and anxiety is much harder to move on from as the causes are often deep rooted.
Mental health issues can be caused by temporary problems like relationship break ups or mourning.
Long term anxiety and depression can come from child hood traumas and low self esteem.
Symptoms of depression can vary often including stress, worry, sleeplessness, low energy, anxiety and depression.
Strong feelings of anxiety and depression originate from a conflict between survival instincts and current behaviour.
Instincts evolved over hundreds of thousands of years are programmed into us to make the difference between life and death.
When these instincts sense we are in danger they speed up our body getting it ready to take action.
Our pulse rises and various glands speed up our body in readiness to react, the fight or flight instinct.
On taking appropriate action we remove the danger. Our instincts see the danger has passed and relax again returning us to a state of rest.
If instincts perceive the danger continues over a long period of time we remain in a heightened state of readiness.
Like revving a car engine for too long.
Eventually we become tired. Anxiety follows from remaining in the danger zone. Then depression follows from lose of hope.
It can be difficult to understand the causes of why we feel anxious and depressed. We start to accept less than ideal situations are normal. Low self esteem prevents appropriate reactions.
Often anxiety and depression are caused from an interaction between three things.
When these three parts of us do not work together, listen to each and interact problems follow.
A parent abandons a child when they are young.
The child blames themselves. Rationalising incorrectly that they are to blame.
Low self esteem is the result.
Low self esteem can make our conscious mind feel we deserve to be treated badly and to accept bad treatment, however our survival instincts do not accept this.
Our instincts must keep us safe. They ready us for action. Our low self esteem stops us from taking any action. We then stay in flight or fight mode then become tired, anxious and eventually depressed.
