Is Emotional Pain an Epidemic

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Is Emotional Pain an Epidemic .Do you wake up each morning feeling joyful for no reason? Or are you silently suffering from profound emotional pain?

You are not alone. Many of us are suffering in silence. Unfortunately, emotional wounds have been woven tightly into the fabric of society and have been regarded as the norm. Our culture does not teach us how to heal naturally and get down to the root cause of it.

However, we are taught to rely on other forms of dependencies, which teaches us powerlessness as we become attached to limitations.

Let’s take a glance at pharmaceutical industry sales data and its forecast.

The Pharma Intelligence website reported the “Deep Dive: Depression Drug Development” is forecast to jump from $4.6 billion in sales revenue in 2015 to an astounding $7.3 billion by 2024.

This includes new therapeutic classes as well as opioid-based drugs. The new therapeutic medications will bring in a total of $4.15 billion in sales in 2024.

We live in a society that expects instant gratification, and popping pills will give you that instant relief. It is a convenient and easy way to cope. However, it comes with the price of unpleasant side effects, such as thoughts of suicide.

Here is one example of many:

One of my friends has been on antidepressants for years, and one day she confided in me that she had reoccurring thoughts of suicide due to the side effects. Shockingly, her doctor told her it was “normal” to have suicidal thoughts—this was a known side effect.

Pain Can Sometimes Disguise a Great Teacher

We can look at pain as a teacher. What is it trying to teach me?

Pain can be an excellent teacher if we allow it to be. When we change our view and see pain as a teacher, we can accept it for what it is and let it go.

Emotional pain can expand our thinking and spring us into action in ways we would not have known otherwise.

The brain will wire itself to suit the information you feed it. So, if you focus on opportunities, the good in life, and gratitude, you will see things happening that pleasure you.

However, conversely, when you focus your attention on pessimism and what could go wrong, you will find things to reflect your expectations no matter what is going on in your life.

So, holding onto your past trauma can subconsciously fester into hatred, anger, and resentment towards the person or people that caused us pain.

Look at it this way—whatever the circumstance, when you approach it from another perspective, you say, “Yeah, that was painful, and it sucks, but I forgive them for they do not know better.”

Your interpretation and the slight change in your attitude can dramatically change the outcome and magnitude of your pain, because it releases you from building inner grudges. This prevents negative future actions such as an unconsciously seeking revenge on an innocent bystander in your life who has no involvement with the origin of your pain.

So, don’t let this great lesson go to waste by allowing it to slip into an emotional suppression —which can lead to an inability to express your inner emotions.

Suppression can result in the act of living in denial, and it can cause more harm in the long run. Unexpressed pain can manifest into physical discomforts such as back pain, high blood pressure, or other more severe illnesses.

A ubiquitous unconscious emotional mind-body-induced illness is a real thing—but largely ignored by the mainstream medical establishment.

Forgiving

The act of forgiving is highly undervalued and commonly misunderstood. Yet, there is immense power in forgiveness.

The misconception about forgiving is that people think forgiveness means releasing responsibility from the other person’s actions. It does not mean that.

Forgiving permits you to move on from a painful situation—you are big enough and mature enough to stop inflicting pain on yourself.

In other words, forgiveness is releasing the emotional and mental burden from the pain inflicted upon you by someone else. Holding anger or grudges over someone wastes precious energy— you only hurt yourself.

Living with grudges and carrying heavy loads of unresolved emotional burdens is equivalent to living your life with a ball and chain tied to your ankle. As it builds, the load can become overwhelming and unbearable over time.

These are extreme cases, but many years ago, there was a show called “Snap”. It was about people with repressed emotions and who have had enough!

Inevitably, they “snap” and unleash their repressed anger, rage, and hatred on the person that caused them grief and physically hurt them, resulting in death. The typical victims were spouses and bosses.

Sweet Revenge?

If you so desperately want to wreak an act of revenge on someone, allow me to make a strong suggestion—simply become the best version of yourself!

Become the healthiest and most fit you have ever been in your life. Become successful in your career, or at the top of your class.

Becoming the best version of yourself demonstrates that you have fully released the painful situation and are living your best life— a life of prosperity and abundance in every area of your life!

So, learn to be done. Not mad, not bothered—just done is how you retain your power. The people who hurt you no longer have control over you.

“Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The traits you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.” —Epictetus

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