Wander through your nearest town early in the dawn and you’ll encounter various sweepers moving slowly around cleaning up the rubbish left from all the partying of last night. It’s an emblematic early morning setting, especially the beeping noise! We don’t often give rubbish a consideration as we assume it will all be tidied up for us.

Nevertheless, there is a sometimes imperceptible yet important impact litter plays on human psychology. One is more liable to think a location is less well policed if rubbish is lying around, and thus criminals see rubbish as a possible indication for a chance of a mugging or robbery. The same signal creates some concern in other individuals who are concerned they may be wandering through a more unsafe area and are wary of being assaulted.

Not only that, but also the influence on the visual appeal of an area. Litter lying about can give the visual aspect of an area looking run down even though it’s just been “abused” by party revellers from the previous night. This can damage the reputation of a neighbourhood if individuals are only within the area for this particular time and only find it in its littered state.

Prevention is always better than cure when it comes to litter. There’s absolutely no reason to drop litter if there are empty litter bins within the location. If there is a lack of rubbish bins, or the litter bins that are there are brimming, this is a problem to take up with the local council. Trashing an area has a damaging impact on everybody.

How to cope with anxiety

Coping with depression can be difficult. Lots of people feel exhausted and low and find it difficult to deal with ordinary living and its usual problems.

Depressive Disorder is a serious malady.

It is deeply unlike from just experiencing the ‘blues’. It is normal to feel lousy and melancholy when you go through hardship and deprivation. The anguish of an miserable relationship, unemployment or bereavement can spoil your humor for some time. When you are sad for any of these reasons, you don’t ordinarily come to a complete stop. Even though ‘your spirit isn’t in it’, you nevertheless cope to carry on with everyday activities and relish the positive matters in life.

Gloominess and sad modes will finally pass. If you have critical sorrow, sharing your troubles with others can help you to come to terms with and cope with the grief.

To be “naturally sad” is not a disease, but clinical depression is! It is a fundamental sadness that can destroy your quality of life. It is an overwhelming feeling that you can’t deal. It can last for weeks, months or even years. If you suffer from depression, you can no longer master your mood or feelings. In clinical depression, the depressive emotion has become long-term; or lasts for a long time.

Depression can be handled and overcome
Individuals tormented from anxiety need intervention. If you suspect that you or somebody you love suffers from depressive disorder it is all important that intervention is sought. Make an assignment to see your physician, speak to a friend or kinfolk member.

There is a wide array of effective intervention choices for depression. Patients usually make a full recovery. Seeking help if depression is suspected is the most important first step on the route to recovery.

Acute handling encompasses the period from starting your medication until the depressive symptoms have totally vanished. After the acute intervention you should feel totally good. The acute treatment typically goes on for one to two months.

Sustainment handling is essential to keep you well. For some time you will be more vulnerable to slip back into depression. Therefore retain the treatment and take your medicine as ordained by your physician.

There is one very simple reason for all emotional depression.

In a recent article entitled “Intelligent Emotions” I discussed how the feelings of “happiness” and “saddness” emerge spontaneously from within one’s Self with every decision one makes for themselves in their lives.

When the feeling of happiness emerges it does so in recognition of the fact that the particular decision made is beneficial to the individual. Conversely, when the feeling of saddness emerges it does so in recognition that the particular decision made is not beneficial to the individual.

In other words there is an inner intelligence inside each of us that is monitoring and commenting on every decision that we make in every moment. It is there essentally to tell us whether we are on the right track in our lives. When we are, that is when we choose to listen to this inner intelligence and heed its advice we wind up feeling happy, joyful, content, fulfilled and therefore successful. After all isn’t the definition of “success” tied to one’s happiness and fulfillment?

What happens when we don’t, for whatever reason heed the advice of this inner intelligence? In other words, what happens when we “think” that our logical mind, or someone else for that matter, has better answers than this inner intelligence and choose to follow it or them? Well if you try this experiment for yourself you will likely find yourself feeling unhappy, sad, unfulfilled, and therefore unsuccessful.

Now what happens if you go on not following this inner intelligence for a lenghty period of time, say months or even years? Well, eventually the sadness and unhappiness start to turn into something even more severe.

This emerging state is what many psychiatrists and psychologists call the state of Depression. If it becomes bad enough it brings with it a host of other symptoms i.e. anxiety, hopelessness, loss of energy, loss of motivation, sleeplessness, worry, and even suicidal thoughts.

Now, most mental health practitioners would say that this “theory” as they might call it is too simplistic to explain the state of Depression and will try to invoke some biological cause. In other words they might imply that there is “something biologically wrong” with the person who suffers from Depression.

I ask you to judge for yourself. Just say to yourself, if you are suffering from Depression “there is something biologically wrong with me” and notice if this makes you feel happy or sad?

Does it make you feel good inside or not? Does it make you feel in charge of your life or out of control? Where would you rather be? Well I’m sure that most indiviuals prefer to feel happy, in control of their own mood state and in charge of their lives.

How do you feel now knowing that you have deep inside you everything you need to move you towards that state of happiness?
If you have not been used to listening for these inner guiding feelings it will take some practice reacquainting yourself with them.

Nick Arrizza M.D. is an Energy Psychiatrist, Life and Executive Coach, Healer, Speaker, Researcher, Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” and developer of the powerful Mind Resonance Process(TM) (available in e-book at: http://www.telecoaching4u.com/ebook.htm). He holds international telecoaching sessions and teleconferences on healing mind, body and spirit