Anxiety and Depression Self-Healing

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Anxiety is the root of most psychological problems in living, in business, and in personal relationships. Depression, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders, traumatic stress problems and psychosis are grounded in anxiety

We are manipulated, by the media and professional interests, to believe that anxiety is either a symptom of "sickness" or "mental disease." It is neither.

The feeling of anxiety may occasionally represent a symptom of an actual physical disease like a cardiac problem, metabolic or endocrine problem, or problem resulting from physical damage to the brain or infection. However, with psychological or emotional difficulties, including most clinical diagnoses, anxiety is a sign of a problem-in-living, not "mental illness" or disease.

The concept of "mental disease" or "mental illness" is a cleverly designed marketing tool in a multi-billion dollar "mental health" industry. There is no scientifically acceptable proof that "mental illness" exists. Correlative studies, often cited as "evidence," are a scientifically unacceptable form of proof that there is such a concept as "mental illness."

Correlative studies measure relationships, not whether actual phenomena exist. While there are serious problems-in-living, the concept of "mental illness," as the mainstream psychology and psychiatry professions typically describe it, is an illusion or false belief. Psychosis is not a "mental illness" but a functional process, not unlike logical thinking. Psychosis is easily healed by functional psychotherapeutic procedures. The lesser problems, defined as "neurosis" are frequently the result of easily changed disturbances in the character structure.

In Civilization and its Discontents, published towards the end of his life in 1930, Sigmund Freud said of man: "it is hard for him to be happy in...civilization." Today, civilization is grounded in greed, deceit designed to achieve an advantage over others, dishonesty, and an insensitivity to the feelings of others. No wonder Freud's cogent analysis has become a benchmark for most lives, today. In 2010, more than $40 billion was spent on psychopharmaceutical approaches. Grief is now being considered as a pharmaceutically treated "mental illness."

Recent advances in biophysical and strategic approaches to healing disconfirm Freud's pessimism. Most anxiety related problems can be easily healed, including most diagnosable problems, without resorting to psychopharmaceutical chemicals with harmful side effects.

If you are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, nervousness, fears or phobias, obsessions, or thinking disturbances, a low opinion of yourself, have spent years in psychotherapy with little progress and/or have been taking medication for thinking problems, you likely do not have a "disease" or "mental illness." You have a problem-in-living. Most problems-in-living can be effectively and quickly resolved, by non-pharmaceutical means. The links on this site provide articles that can facilitate an understanding and healing.