One of the most frequently asked questions I get asked is “When it comes to stress, anxiety and depression, what helps?”

For many sufferers, a feeling of helplessness underpins stress, anxiety and depression and I touched upon this briefly in a recent article about how beliefs can exacerbate the suffering.

Helplessness is a major part of stress, anxiety and depression so let’s look at how you can reduce the impact this flawed belief has to help relieve the suffering.

Believing you are helpless in life is a truly terrible feeling and I write from personal experience here. For five years, a number of traumatic events led me to the point where I believed life held nothing but pain and anguish. I truly believed life would unfold in a way that would destroy me and there wasn’t a single thing I could do about it. [Read more...]