Wellness is in large part affected by our emotions and how we feel. A variety of mental health problems can contribute to a serious decline in our emotional and physical wellbeing. There are various different ways of tackling mental health problems, however, it can be difficult to know which is the best type to gravitate towards.
Mental health experts are now suggesting that instead of simply treating symptoms and providing people with coping strategies for their issues, that patients should be treated on a much more in-depth level, tackling the root cause of the problem.
For example, patients who have self-esteem issues are often treated with very superficial methods, such as visualisations (imagining themselves as strong and successful as they would like to be) or by affirmations (where they repeat key phrases pertaining to their own success over and over again until they start to believe them). Scientists now believe that whilst these methods may temporarily relieve the symptoms of a problem, they do not make it go away altogether, and a deeper approach should be taken.
Using the example of a self-esteem issue, this may be resolved by exploring the patient’s childhood and trying to work out what incidents or experiences from their early life may have had a shaping influence on the way that they feel about themselves today. It could be that they have experienced some form of trauma or abuse as a child, or even that there are seemingly innocent factors in their past which, over time, have gradually led to a cycle of self-doubt and anxiety where they have stopped believing in their own worth. Some researchers now believe that only by identifying the root cause and understanding it can you move forward and form more positive behaviour habits in the future.
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