Will Bridges

Sometimes people get lost in the world they create for themselves. Their environment becomes stagnant and the air becomes weak around them. What I mean is people get stale and sick of their own existance wihtout even knowing it's hit them. I believe the body will reject this by creating depression, anxiety and making a person go through all shades of difficulty and stress. I really feel that these things like anxiety and depression are ways that the body reflects it's distaste for our current situation and a way of letting us know we are living unhealthy. I actually have battled with anxiety disorder for some time. My father has anxiety and my mother has depression. So, I find myself creating all kinds of mental stress and situations for myself. But, without pills, (which I believe control the syptom and don't cure the problem) I have managed to overcome these things by listening to my body and my mind.

I change things up when I undergo these types of symptoms. I look at my life and how I could make it better, reduce stress and create peace. So, I tend to look inward instead of outward for a solution to these problems. A lot of people are happy on the drugs that they give you for depression or anxiety but I just don't want to become addicted at such an early age and I have a hard time believing that so many people are afflicted by what is considered a disease. I think the diseases are complaicancy, boredom, various addictions and stress. The result is a body and mind that cry out for attention in the form of anxiety and depression. The normal response is "Doctor, give me something for this…" when I believe it should be "What am I doing that creates this feeling for me?". The second question can have difficult answers and the first question, the one that most people ask, has a much more simple answer. Since I walked this path and chose question number two I can tell you it is a longer and more difficult path but a much more rewarding path. You can learn a lot about yourself traveling that path. My anxiety attacks were pretty bad. I went to the hospital a couple times and they hooked me up to machines to attempt to figure out what was wrong with me. They eventually chalked it up to anxiety disorder after running all the tests they could think of. I took a long, hard look at myself and had to quit smoking, start working out and change my outlook on life to a more positive one. Not only that but I had to make drastic lifestyle changes… I had to switch it up.

I realized my job was very stressful, my health was getting worse and general stress about things that weren't important were weakening my spirit. It took me about 2 months before I was able to get a plan in place to quit my job at the time, put a work out plan in action, eat a bit better and treat myself like I cared about and loved me. I was satisfied because I know many people just continue on that path, they don't change anything and they end up sad people who are productive members of society but lose their soul and forget what makes them unique. 

Change is beautiful. The universe is full of change. It is the only constant. It's a dynamic symphony of instruments that we are all a part of. But, in it's time an instrument will have many notes and play many songs and without those different notes and songs it would not be an instrument at all but just background noise. Live life full.