Anxiety and Depression: the Mask of Modernity

We have a brain that is not prepared to undergo the amount of stimuli that we present to it in everyday life, and the exercise of multitasking does not work even for the most advanced computers; Imagine the limits of stress to which we subject our central nervous system every day, leading it to execute all its programs and connections simultaneously.

This is the cause of the most silent diseases of the 20th century, which I would even dare to say are a trend in the offices of mental health professionals, and which we have almost normalized. These symptoms directly attack our immune system, and of course our vitality, ability to execute, vital energy and biological homeostasis.

Psychological dynamics of modernity

When we buy the story that the busier and more distracted I am, the closer I am to success, it is time for us to ask ourselves the question: what is success? This is basic to begin to configure and understand the renunciations that you are making to reach such a desired state, to what extent you are far from happiness.

Consequently, we find ourselves with collapsed health systems, with alarming figures regarding mental health. How did we get to this? Simple, the story of hyperconnectivity, immediacy, competitiveness and the new demands of the accelerated and growing market has led the human race to expand its capacity in frontiers impossible to reach, and above all to sustain, for our vulnerable nervous system.

Under the premise of evolution and competitiveness we have become beings highly stimulated by the environment; We behave through conditioning, between reward and punishment. The reward is nothing different than status, belonging, stereotypical approval, and the punishment is the absence of the above, in a very marginalized line, we have given all the power to over-stimulation to operate on us. And as a consequence, we arrive crowded to the rooms and health centers and private offices in search of turning off the noise that does not exist anywhere other than our system.

Explaining where anxiety and depression come from becomes too obvious if we go to the best-selling books, where they explain how to reach the highest mental level; That is precisely what we consume: a thirst for success, far from being genuinely personal success.

And then what to do?

The first thing is to identify the cause, because anxiety and depression are mere symptomatic observations, and they appear as a consequence of a learned pattern, an undefined fear, a co-created expectation or an illusion that only exists in the human mind.

How to get to the cause? This requires a very deep introspection process where, navigating through the waters of the unconscious, a fabric is formed that is clear enough to lead the person to understanding; not to understanding, to understanding. And this generally requires professional support that facilitates access routes and accelerates the process through therapeutic processes.

My recomendation

In addition to taking mental health very seriously, which depends exclusively on the being who experiences it, try to have spaces for yourself, away from the distraction of the competitive environment, of mobile devices. Try to have frequent internal dialogues. Write, writing is an excellent channeling method. Meditate, exercise your body, eat consciously, walk barefoot from time to time, hug a tree, have real, deep conversations, listen to the people around you; not in a reactive way, but in an empathetic way. Listen to music, go out for an afternoon with yourself and give yourself a pleasant experience, turn off your cell phone in the middle of the afternoon once a week, your brain will thank you.

Try to leave the city as much as you can, observe the trees, the mountains, the rivers, the flowers, this way you will understand what the world is really made of. Of magic, of perfect sounds, of oxygen that nourishes our system when we breathe.

Start the path of self-recognition through breathing, five minutes of conscious breathing will restore your balance during those chaotic, caffeine-filled days.

Follow your intuition, listen to it, the more you listen to it the easier you will be able to communicate your intentions, away from the desires of the ego. We are not sick, anxiety and depression are nothing different from the calls that the nervous system makes to us to take a break; Give yourself that pause, give yourself the experience of living.