Choices

No matter what happens with depression and anxiety, the sufferer always has a choice. Unfortunately, the choices that involve dissipating symptoms can oftentimes prolong unhelpful habits of avoidance and distraction. Crucial skills of self-nurturing, thinking straight, muscle relaxation, focus, and emotional responsibility, to name a few, can all be learned and added to one's box of tools, but only after calmly experiencing the symptoms.

No doubt about it, today's North American lives are complicated. Filled with a plethora of slings and arrows, decisions to make, and people to deal with, it can be challenging to know what to do sometimes. Either way, there is no sense in sitting on the fence. Make a decision, and learn how to love that decision you made, and make it work. You will have to become good at making decisions if you want a way out of your troubles.