Who’s in charge of your life? Who’s driving the bus? These are the basic questions that NLP asks you, to challenge the idea that you are powerless to change.
Depression and anxiety disorders are related to your idea that someone or something else is in charge, and your symptoms are perpetuated and aggravated by the belief that you are helpless to change.
But you know that if you could, and when you do change, you will cease being a victim of the condition you experience, and become instead the one who’s driving that bus, and choosing your journey.
Although much is said about the chemical causes for depression, that diagnosis doesn’t really address the issue. Everything is chemical to some extent. Love is chemical too. Anger is chemical, curiosity, fear, and any emotional state you care to mention has some chemical component. You can also ask, “What else is it aside from mere chemistry?”
Anger, addictions of various kinds, emotions of all sorts can be managed, and transformed. You can learn to change their negative effects easily when you know how. The same is true of depression and anxiety. It’s just a question of learning the skills.
Depression and Anxiety lead to many things:
- family conflict
- alienation
- learning disabilities necessary
- low self-esteem
- low energy
- absenteeism
- ill health
- chronic debilitating mental illness
… the list goes on
Twenty-seven million people in the US take medication for depression. Perhaps you’re one of them. Perhaps you would like to avoid becoming one of them.
Here’s a resource I discovered. It doesn’t mention NLP – but it’s got some good info.
