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Psychological Effects of Stress:
ANXIETY & DEPRESSIONThe two most common psychological effects of stress are what we know as anxiety and depression.That both anxiety and depression have stress as their root cause is a simple idea, but not necessarily self-evident to many of the people suffering from these afflictions. How many times have you heard the depressed person say they are “sad about nothing”? Or the anxiety-afflicted person, when asked what they’re so worried about, reply “I don’t know - nothing!”? Stress is not nothing. It is real and tangible and has profound and far-reaching effects on both your body and mind. Realizing that chronic stress is the fountain from which anxiety and depression flow is the first step in correcting the problem. Entire industries exist to support and cater to people who suffer from these psychological effects of stress. Notice I said "support" and "cater to" – not cure! My perspective, the HARDCORE perspective, is that psychotropic drugs (anti-anxiety pills, anti-depressants and the like) can never provide anything more than an escape from stress. Indeed, so very often they make the problem worse! “Grady, do you really think medicine makes these problems worse?” I can hear you ask. Well the answer is - you better believe I do. The human body is an incredibly complex machine – even more so the human mind. Tinkering with the brain’s neurochemistry, which is exactly what these “medicines” do, is a crap-shoot at best. No one knows the short-term effects these kinds of drugs can have on a person, much less the long-term … have you ever looked at the list of side-effects on a bottle of these “medicines”? Here’s a partial list of potential side-effects from a well-known prescription anti-depressant: • nausea Read that last one again – “nervousness, or anxiety”! Why in the world does an anti-depressant have “anxiety” as a side-effect?!? Here’s another list of potential side-effects, this time from a well-known prescription anti-anxiety medication: • mental confusion Depression is at the top of the list ... So just to sum this up – we have anti-depressants with anxiety as a side-effect, and anti-anxiety pills with depression as a side-effect! “But isn’t that because anxiety and depressions are the opposite of one another?” NO! A thousand times no! Anxiety and depression are simply two different kinds of reaction to chronic or extreme stress. They have the same root. They are “kissing cousins” as we say back home. To treat one of the psychological effects of stress by trying to turn it into another, all the while screwing with your body in incomprehensible ways, is the equivalent of cutting off your nose to spite your face! Do you want to deal with your anxiety and depression? Deal with the stress that is causing them. Do you want to kick the drugs? Take back control of you life? Then address the root cause – the stress! How? Check out my HARDCORE Stress Management™ program. It is the fastest drug-free solution to extreme stress, anxiety, and depression on the market. It will blow your mind, I guarantee it. You can also read more about the relationship between Stress & Your Mind ...
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