Self-help Secrets Revealed – Part 3
How to Become an Effective Self-Help User?
“Know Thyself” That is the essence of what this chapter is about. You are a “self-help” seeker and user. You want resources to advance yourself in your life, to feel better, stronger and more successful. You’re not satisfied with how things are. And you’re not complacent about it. You’re motivated. Therefore, you’ve come to the right place.
Here, we’re going to get focused. You have read the previous chapter on Assessing Your Self-Help Needs, where we made the distinction between categories of distress and categories of achievement. We use these definitions to help you differentiate between goals to be achieved and problems to be solved. This ensures that we are on the same page.
Let’s identify a few symptom problems under categories of distress. We start with the big ones and work our way down.
Top of the list in Problems to be Solved (categories of distress) is Anxiety. Your number one source of pain and stress, anxiety permeates everything. It affects your sleep, how you feel about yourself and your circumstances in the World.
- Do you feel Confident?
- Do you feel Effective?
- Are you feeling Lost or Unsure of Yourself?
These questions take us back to anxiety, the root symptom underlying our Stress. If we have anxiety as a problem, then Stress Management is a possible solution. We see that stress is first experienced as anxiety. It becomes stress after occupying space within us for any length of time. It is something we experience and live with everyday, and it colors our way of viewing the world.
Another disabling symptom category is Depression. This is the second most common symptom in the range of disabling categories. It’s amazing how many people are depressed today. You can see this for yourself when you walk into any bookstore and count the number of books devoted to Depression.
When I travel and wander through Airport bookstores I see more books on Depression and Anti-Depressant Medication than any other subject. And this is supposed to be the Age of Abundance and Leisure!
Why is Depression so common? And why is it so difficult to overcome?
Some forms of depression and anxiety are a function of chemistry and need to be assessed by a psychiatrist or psychologist. What we are talking about here is the stress of “acquiring more” and “making it” as a function of living in a competitive society. Yes, some stress is necessary, even desired, to bring out our best performance in work or other activities.
Being overwhelmed by Stress is all too common today.
Anxiety and depression walk hand in hand with those of us geared to the competitive lifestyle. Depression is the most commonly diagnosed mental illness today. Where there is depression, there is Anxiety. The pharmaceutical industry makes a fortune delivering new types of medications for two categories alone.
Yes, Depression and Anxiety are interlinked. They show up whenever “Stress” is the assessed root problem.
Stress, Anxiety and Depression dominate our Era. From the pressure to succeed and to raise our children perfectly, to the side effects of “The War on Terrorism”, we are all subject to stress. Life comes with stress. Our purpose is to find a means of managing stress so we can move forward with our problems to solve and goals to achieve
We Have Learned that Categories of Distress are Global.
Anxiety, depression and stress occupy our minds and thoughts daily. They are a top priority in our consciousness and can trigger major physical illnesses. Becoming happy is about becoming healthy, productive and at home with ourselves.
Anxiety – Stress – Depressive States are Global Tragedies!
What else can we feel when 200 Spaniards are killed by terrorist bombs on their way to work one morning? When everyday dozens of soldiers or are killed or maimed while involved in some military action around the World.
Every day there is Stress; Kids, Jobs, Debt, Bad News, and so on. There’s plenty of stress to go around.
Back to Categories of Distress
Anxiety, Depression, Stress are the top three!
Other symptom categories derive from these three.
Where can you find Relief?
HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK!
Click below and Search AMAZON.COM Books for titles on ANXIETY and DEPRESSION.
http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Metaphor-Personal-Development/dp/0595354513/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&tag=theselfhelpad-20&s=books&qid=1220023398&sr=1-1
A box will appear in which you can select categories to explore. Choose “Books.” Then in the Keyword Slot type in Anxiety Recovery or Depression Recovery and the search is on. Titles will appear with descriptions for you to assess.
Do the same for any Keyword Phrase in the Self-Help realm, and a search will ensue. A list of titles will pop up. Take your time. Read the customer ratings and reviews. Search “Inside the Book” if that is available. Trust your Intuition and Feeling Centre to inform you if the title you are examining is a Good Fit for Your Needs.
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