Is there a permanant cure to the problem of depression and anxiety?

It has often been said that old problems are not so much cured but grown out of. That is to say that the things which used to bother us don’t disappear, but become less important.

What I am talking about here is of course the underlying causes of anxiety, panic attacks, depression and phobias, especially the more complicated phobias like agoraphobia and fear of flying. What is that underlying cause? It’s different for everyone but for many people it is some kind of nameless dread that is never really identified. Perhaps that unidentifiable monster was created early in life, before our logical and linguistic brains had developed enough to make sense of it, perhaps that is why it will always stay out of the reach of our logical minds.

So, if this is the case then rather than remove this thing, it might be the case that we live with it. After all, if it is by its very nature unidentifiable then how can we hope to remove it? We don’t know what it is and can’t know when it’s gone. That is why the statement at the beginning might well hold true. As we grow, and expand our lives, we become bigger than the problem. What was once a mountain will become a molehill.But remember, this simplistic metaphor does not apply where there is no logic or understanding, as is the case with our deep subconscious minds. Sometimes, for some reason, that molehill can flair up and cause trouble again. As we grow, we should be sure to learn to see that coming and to be bigger than it again. Eventually a position can be reached where what used to ruin lives now spoils only half a day, then only an hour.

So, the advice here is to not fixate about destroying a problem, or even changing it, but to change yourself in relation to it!