Body & Soul

Words That Relieve Stress, Depression & Anxiety

One of the most common flawed modes of behavior performed by every sufferer who enters into a harrowing episode of stress, depression or anxiety concerns the words they use to describe situations and events they are confronted with. In using powerful, emotive words, sufferers will trigger the fear response and the more they use such words, the worse their suffering gets.

Powerful, emotive words are part of everybody’s vocabulary. Sometimes, we use powerful words when we lose our temper or we become angry and frustrated. In this state, we give vent to our feelings and the emotions within us have an outlet.

This is fine. For most people, once their emotions have been expressed, they return to their usual selves and life carries on as normal.

But it doesn’t work like this if you are prone to stress, depression or anxiety.

In these states, sufferers will react negatively to every event they are confronted with in their lives. One of the negative reactions concerns using powerful and emotive words that can make even the most insignificant of events a major problem. Words can and do have that much power and in this article, I’m going to show you how this works with three of the worst words you can use to assign meanings to events. They are:

Nothing, everything and never.

For example, let’s say your relationship with your spouse breaks down. Here’s how using the above words can trigger stress, depression or anxiety:

Well that’s it. EVERYTHING has gone wrong in my life. I’m NOTHING without him/her and I know I?ll NEVER be happy ever again.?

Can you see how flawed this highly emotive reaction is and can you see how these words ? seemingly innocuous by themselves ? have prefabricated one event a major, stressful episode by assigning a catastrophic meaning to your whole life?

To refrain arousing such fearful emotions, here are three better, much less emotive words you - Click here to read more ...