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Depression is epidemic around the world right now.

The number of individuals who are depressed in any given year is approaching double digit numbers.

The number of individuals who think about committing suicide in any give year is high and climbing.

The problem is complex but the solution is simple.

1. In our society we value and honor the Stoic approach to feelings that don’t feel good. THIS IS UNHEALTHY.

2. We stigmatize people who seek professional help. DO YOU REALIZE THAT LOW EMOTIONAL STATES ARE THE ROOT CAUSE OF HORRENDOUS CRIMES? I am not saying that anyone and everyone who feels depressed will become front page news–but some of them will. The more there are–the more bad news. Sustained low emotional states–often in an individual who has asked for help in innumerable ways, for years–is a precursor to those abhorrent crimes.

I’m not saying this to stigmatize anyone. I am saying it to motivate those who think less of someone who asks for help to see that they contribute to the problem. Someone in a sustained low emotional state does not have the same ability to solve their own problems that exact same person has when they are in a better frame of mind/mood. Our mental and cognitive abilities go up when we feel good and decrease when we feel bad. 

We all need to do as much as we can to help those in our lives. Do you know where some of the most insidious bullying goes on? At the dining room table. We seem to think we can belittle and ridicule our family in ways we would not do with a stranger. This is especially true with things that are associated with depressions (obesity, sleeping more, alcohol, drugs, smoking, job loss, inertia, and more). We say, “They know we love him or her.” But that is not always true. Someone who feels depressed is not feeling the love–even when it is there. Then the family treats them poorly, which feeds into feeling unloved. Our television shows and movies often provide rotten role models of how to treat those we love. 

So, BE MORE LOVING. You never know when the smile you give away really makes a difference.

The current statistics indicate about 1/3 of us will experience depression during our life. Depression largely results from chronic stress leading to sustained low emotional states. 

The solution is to learn skills that address stress in healthy ways–that do not require you to control the controllable or change circumstances. Even chronic depression has been overcome using these techniques.  That is because the lack of stress management skills is what made it recurrent in the first place.

Stress does not just diminish our enjoyment of life–it literally makes us sick. It begins with headaches, stomach woes, muscle tension, and other things we have been trained to just tolerate. The low emotions and the physical symptoms are both communication from your body to address the stress. If we, as a society, begin noticing and managing stress at that level both the disease and stress levels will improve drastically.  So much so that I believe it would solve the healthcare crisis if adopted widely enough. 

Big claims. Yes. But supported by research when you put all the pieces from the various scientific fields together. I go into far more detail in my new book, TRUE Prevention–Optimum Health: Remember Galileo.

Or learn the skill now. All of our Premier Programs have a money back guarantee–but you won’t use it.