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Dealing With Stress - Exposing 3 Quack Treatments That Will Hurt You

Nowadays, there is an abundance of various stress relief methods and anxiety alleviation techniques promoted by hundreds of alleged stress & anxiety specialists, sufferers find it very hard to work out who offers the best solutions. Having suffered for five painful years with chronic anxiety, I can assess very quickly whether or not an individual who claims to specialize in dealing with stress and anxiety is either on the mark or just a plain old quack. It is vitally important to avoid techniques that actually prolong your suffering and here are three must avoid commonly promoted stress relief techniques so you don't waste your valuable time and money on snake oil.

1. The foods you eat and nourishment. Any individual who claims that stress and anxiety are:

Caused by poor diet and inadequate nourishment or:

Can be relieved by improving diet and nutrition

Does not possess a basic understanding of these serious problems and is pulling the wool over your eyes. No doubt about it.

Why? Ask yourself this:

Do ALL sufferers of these problems eat a poor diet and does everybody who eats a poor diet become stressed, anxious or depressed?

I've eaten the very healthy Mediterranean diet for the last fifteen years and for five of them, anxiety and depression made my life hell. My diet didn't cause my problems nor did it help in any way whatsoever with dealing with stress, anxiety and depression.

2. Stand-up tall and taking deep breaths. Any sufferer who has experienced anxiety, stress or depression will be well aware of this fact: When you are in the midst of a mindstorm, thinking that everything is going wrong, that you cannot deal with basic issues and that you'll never find an answer to the events you are confronted with, taking deep breaths and improving your posture are irrelevances. That there happen to be health professionals, counselors and a myriad of other alleged experts in stressful illnesses recommending these as helpful stress reduction methods is incredible and disappointing.

Look. At those times when you feel so frightened and out of control your hands happen to be shaking like leaves and sleep evades you no matter how dog-tired you are, you can improve your posture and try breathing deeply all day long but neither of them will help you to relieve stress and anxiety. That's because the root cause of these problems is not being addressed and that is the key factor in dealing with stress, anxiety and depression successfully.

If a health professional or a counselor advises you to try these to help you alleviate stress and anxiety, then don't give them a second of your time because they're talking rubbish. Ignore them and save your time and money.

3. Lastly, another "surefire" way to alleviate stress, anxiety and depression that will not only do anything but, it may also make these problems even more severe. Ever heard this:

If a situation or a person triggers stress or anxiety, avoid them.

Great idea! Let's hide away from life and let's blame situations for making people stressed and anxious. 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. Shutting yourself away from the world and steering clear of certain people and events may cause you to become isolated, and this will greatly exacerbate stress, anxiety and depression.

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. Those who believe events and circumstances cause stress and anxiety show they do not possess a good understanding about how these illnesses arise, maybe because they haven't endured one. Don't pay attention to them, they will fail you for sure.

Avoiding methods and strategies that do not work is really helpful in dealing with stress as you will focus on what does work. You now have important information about stressful illnesses and I urge you to use it.

By: Christopher James Green

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