There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding stress and depression, so it’s important to understand exactly what you are dealing with. Depression is nothing more than a term given to define the symptoms exhibited by the human body's natural reaction to excessive stress on the mind.

Depression is not a sign of personal weakness, quite the contrary, today your inner strength shines through as you seek the solution instead of just allowing it to engulf you. Depression affects all people equally regardless of age, demographic or social position and it is certainly not a physical disability, nor is it caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. The lowered serotonin levels in the brain are a resulting symptom of excessive stress on the mind - not the cause of it.

That's why so many people remain stuck in depression for so long, because they are fighting the stress symptoms instead of addressing the cause. Click Here to learn why medication, by design, will never cure stress or depression.

FACT: It's Not Your Fault - Anyone who has been through your exact life circumstances would be in exactly the same emotionally stressed state as you are right now.

Why? Because all of your life experiences, from childhood until today, have contributed to create your individual and unique set of personal beliefs of the world around you. These beliefs define your individual stress tolerance capacity and dictate how you perceive and react to external events today. They determine whether you will take a negative view, or adopt a positive “smile through life” attitude towards your situation.

To better understand the concept of belief in human nature, consider your childhood. From a young age we all believed in Santa Clause and acted accordingly, setting out milk and cookies for him with excitement and anticipation on Christmas Eve. Of course you don't do that anymore because as you grew up and acquired more knowledge, your beliefs and perceptions of Santa changed, hence so have your attitudes and behaviors. When you perceived Santa as real, your emotions and actions reflected this, even though your beliefs were in fact false.

In the same manner, those people who smile through life today had parents, teachers and/or role models that instilled in them from an early age positive beliefs in relation to stressful events such as “Don't worry, you'll get through it” or “Keep your chin up, everything will work out fine”. On the other hand, if you grew up watching your parents being always worried and stressed about what the future will bring, then you would most likely have unknowingly adopted that same negative stress perception characteristic and a low stress tolerance threshold.

Some people raise the opinion that stress susceptibility is hereditary when in actual fact it’s only a learned behavioral mindset that's usually instilled during childhood - hence the hereditary confusion. Often people live quite happily for many years until something happens that pushes them over their stress tolerance limits and through no fault of their own, they find themselves being pulled into a downward spiral of stress and depression, without the knowledge required to escape.

Once your mind is exposed to stress levels in excess of its predefined tolerances, the minds natural stress-effect begins, compounding your stress daily and fueling a depressive episode.

But Don't worry, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Today, depression relief is becoming an exacting science with leading research providing highly effective methods that guarantee your success. It's now possible to quickly and easily increase your stress tolerance threshold to create a permanent smile through life attitude today!