For sufferers, avoiding treatments that will just make stress and anxiety even worse is absolutely critical so let's now look at three commonly prescribed solutions for stress relief you must steer clear of as they'll do nothing other than rob you of your precious time and money.
1. Diet and nourishment. Anyone who asserts that stressful illnesses are:
Caused by poor diet and deficient nourishment or:
Eating a healthy diet will help to relieve stress and anxiety
Does not possess a basic understanding of these serious problems and is pulling the wool over your eyes. No doubt about it.
To find out why, just ask a simple question:
Does EVERY sufferer of stressful illnesses have bad eating habits and also, is it true that anyone who does have poor eating habits will suffer from stress, anxiety or depression?
For at least fifteen years, I've been eating the Mediterranean diet yet for five of these years, anxiety and depression wreaked havoc on my life. My diet didn't cause my problems nor did it help in any way whatsoever with
dealing with stress, anxiety and depression.
2. Next, another common "effective" stress relief technique that will fail you and could even make you feel worse. Ever heard this:
If a situation or a person triggers stress or anxiety, avoid them.
Great idea! Shut yourself away from the world because the root cause of stressful illnesses lies in events and circumstances. Shutting yourself away from life is not an effective way to deal with stress and anxiety, moreover, a symptom shared by many sufferers is the feeling of wanting to be by themselves. Advising sufferers to avoid circumstances, situations and people because they cause stress can cause them to become isolated and this will make stress and anxiety worse to the point that depression sets in.
Shying away from people and situations does nothing to tackle what is at the root of stress and anxiety and indeed, no event by itself can cause these problems to arise. Any expert, counselor or specialist who states otherwise merely demonstrates a lack of understanding concerning stressful illnesses possibly because they have never suffered one.