Anxiety, Stress and Depression
When you are suffering from long-term anxiety, stress or depression, you can’t function or think properly. You live from day to day, hour to hour or even minute to minute. You are just surviving rather than thriving.
All long-term anxiety stress or depression are caused by unresolved stress or trauma from the past. Normally when you have a stressful or traumatic event, your body goes into the primitive survival mode called flight, fight or freeze. You get given three options; you can fight the event, you can run away, or you can freeze. To do this, blood is taken from the brain as you don’t need to think. Blood is taken away from the gut as you do not need to digest, and your muscles are flooded with hormones so that they can spring into life. All of this raises your anxiety and stress levels. Once the drama is over, the brain turns the event into a memory, and you return to calm.
Occasionally, when an event is so traumatic or horrible, the chemicals needed to initiate the process, fails and the event remains in conscious awareness. This means you are continually aware of what happened. You relive the event consciously or subconsciously. You stay in a constant state of survival and your anxiety and stress levels remain high.
FIGHT, FIGHT, FREEZE, APPEASE
In this state you:
- Can’t concentrate or think. This is because blood is being taken from the brain.
- You often have digestion problems because blood is blocked from the gut.
- Your muscles are stiff, tense, as they are constantly flooded with hormones.
- Your stress and anxiety levels are through the roof and are often accompanied by apprehension and a feeling of dread.
TRIGGERING THE MEMORY PROCESS
How do you come down from these high levels of anxiety and stress?
All the researchers agree that two things need to happen:
- The body and the brain need to know that the past stress and trauma are over and you are safe.
- You must have power over past events instead of them having power over you.
Unfortunately, the traditional ways of resolving stress, anxiety and depression take a long time and often rely on medication. This is not necessarily so. The Richards Trauma Process, TRTP utilises dynamic re-imagination to resolve this quickly, effectively and efficiently. In just three sessions, a week apart, you can resolve the past anxiety and stress or trauma and break free from the chains that have prevented you from living the life you want or deserve.
