Stress, Anxiety, Depression

Everyone at one point or another suffers from stress, anxiety or depression, which affects their life and health. They are just three words to describe pretty much the same thing- a bad feeling resulting in a bad symptom. Some of the most prescribed and used pharma drugs are for these 3 issues.
Breaking down stress, anxiety and depression we really have the same cause delivering a different symptom (and at that not so different). These symptoms all come about first in the mind when we have extra or excessive thoughts to deal with and feel over whelmed by what and how to solve them.
Outer environmental issues can also bring on these symptoms when the weather becomes erratic or the outer elements of wind, earth and fire become excessive for our body/mind to deal with. This in our society has become a big issue as people use more air conditioning and heating to combat the extreme weather conditions we have created through global warming. Also as people are over eating and live a life contrary to nature we tent to find the outer environment extreme because our bodies are too hot or cold from our intake of substandard polluted food, air and intake of pharma drugs.
In the mind, to understand and solve these issues first we have to observe and see if we are habitually accumulating problems by not taking care of old situations and at the same time adding more by being in denial about the passed and present. Many of our problems are initiated by our emotions and intellect which does not want to let go of passed ‘dramas’ that we have helped to create. Whether we perceive others or outer stimulants as a cause of our stress, anxiety or depression ultimately we are responsible for part of this feeling as it is us that allows this attachment to happen.
Once we become aware and accept our part in a situation and decide to change then the work begins. If we perceive a person or outer event as the cause of our unhappiness, we are handing control and responsibility over to that thing which becomes our obsession. We become attached and use it as a distraction from the real issues in our life. The mind has to become aware and accept that it is our attachment to people and events that bring on stress, anxiety and depression and not the people or events themselves. It is our desire to control situations and people that brings on these disease forming situations as we, through choice, choose to be in certain situations with certain people.
Ask yourself;
Do I really want to be free of stress?
How and what am I doing to bring it on?
Do I think others are causing me to have these feelings or am I taking it on out of choice?
What am I doing to get rid of these negative feelings?
When you answer these simple questions to yourself in an honest manner, you will find the cause of your issues. Now what to do about it.
Release all thoughts that others and outer things are responsible for any of your unhappiness and realize and put effort into understanding that you are the one causing all your problems. Once you acknowledge this, keep practicing detachment from all things and people by observing your thoughts and changing them for different and more lighter ones. Experience this feeling and enjoy the peace it brings you. It takes practice, it takes patients and it takes some time.