Jan 05 2009
Self Help for Motivation - Do You Have Depression and Anxiety?
Self help therapy for motivation, depression and anxiety is great, but before you surf to Amazon to buy a library of self-help books and tapes, it is crucial to gain a better understanding of what kind of person you are.
Let us begin by examining the meaning of autonomy; not a word everyone is familiar with, but we all have it, to varying degrees. A person’s level of autonomy decides whether or not they take charge of their life, and make the choice to change something about it, or whether to sit on their hands and suffer in circumstances that are unfavorable to them.
Low level autonomy is when one finds themselves fired from a job for underachieving, but rather than spend that same afternoon looking for a new job, they go home, open a bag of chips and turn on the television, while they brood about the bad hand they were dealt.
In contrast, a person with a high level of autonomy visits their local employment office, catches up with someone who owes them a professional favor, or submits their resume online that afternoon to 18 different companies.
Low levels of autonomy are also bad for physical health. Someone who resigns themselves to the fact that pure bad luck has placed them into a situation, is far more likely to become stressed, depressed, have a run down immune system and become physically ill. However, the same person decided they were not suited to a job from which they were let go, will try everything he can to ‘manually’ change his situation, and as a result will not suffer the mental and physical distress of his counterpart.
What do you do in a tough situation? Do you resign yourself to thinking it is all someone else’s fault, and that your life is in under the control of a greater power? Or, do you take charge and attempt to make things better for yourself and your family because you know you can?
