Beat the tiredness

Beating the tiredness of long Depression or Anxiety.

The mental power necessary to lift the thought processes that fight Depression or Anxiety would understandably become exhausted after any long-term mental battle, hence eventually digging what appears to be a deeper hole for the individual to have to find a way out of. The less energy people believe they have left to deal with their psychological state, the less inclined they are to believe there is any hope for improvement.

The energy supply usually available for physical effort can also mysteriously disappears after long-term Depression and Anxiety, regardless of the level of physical activity that has been taking place.  Such depletion leaves many people seriously struggling to physically make it to appointments even when their mental energy is sufficient to allow them the desire to seek help.
Just as with any mechanical structure, the human body must draw energy from energy stockpiles when performing either mental or physical activity, and it is these stockpiles that can become exhausted when suffering Depression or Anxiety for an extended period of time. But how can the thought processes involved in Depression or Anxiety use up a person’s usual enormous flask of energy reserve?

Many people mistakenly believe the depletion of energy is due to a period of poor selection of food supply, and a consequent lake of nutrition being made available to the body. The common extreme exhaustion experience from long-term Depression or Anxiety is not caused by in adequate nutrition being offered to the body, but rather due to the body’s decreased capability of nutritional absorption and storage.

Whilst running in the mental state of Anxiety, the person’s body is running predominantly on the sympathetic nervous system’s ‘flight and fight’ agenda, where enormous energy supplies are being utilized and consumed. When in this state the person is also inclined to desire the ability to lift personal coping skills and this begins to over-activate the adrenal glands role of calling upon extra energy supplies, and more energy is consumed and the flask of energy reserves begin to decrease.

Eventually as the person psychologically reaches the point of no longer believing to be personally capable of lifting such coping skills, this state of mind psychosomatically degenerates the adrenal glands physical capability, and leaves them unable to be called upon when needed. Both the body’s energy reserves and the body’s ability to lift when needed, has become depleted.

Whilst a person is running in the mental state of Depression, due to the person believing that life events/experiences are not supplying adequate factors required to enable the person to continue with possessing goals or working on finding new goals, the person’s body is running predominately on the (digestive/absorption) parasympathetic nervous system, but is still not able to absorb adequate nutrition due to the digestive organs being psychosomatically influenced by that personal belief that ‘life events are not supplying sufficient factors capable of enabling the person to have goals or work on establishing new goals’. 

It’s like an enormous ‘catch twenty two’ situation. The psychological states that trigger Depression or Anxiety, also adversely influence the physical body to running in a mode that prevents the body from absorbing or storing adequate nutritional supplies to beat the psychological states. There is no doubt that people who have reached such a depleted physical and mental state, require both rest and restoration of energy reserves, but few people are aware that before the required physical changes can take place that would enable such restoration of energy reserves, the person’s psychological state must change.

The physical and mental fatigue being experiences is definitely due to a physiological dysfunction of those mechanisms within the body that provide the resources for mental and physical function, but such dysfunction is due to the person’s psychological understanding of life. The fatigue is the body’s physical way of informing people the their educated interpretations of life are not correct.

Depression and Anxiety, along with the physical fatigue that can be associated with these states, are means by which to eventually help people to gain a greater appreciation of life.  What do you think the body is trying to teach us when we either believe we need to prove we can control life (Anxiety), or we think that life is not supplying us with our necessities (Depression)?