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This is precisely the risk modern man runs.

He may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.

Psychotropic drugs have become one of the most common forms of treatment for anxiety disorders and depression.

But these drugs are not very good at curing people, and often they just become crutches for lifelong psychological cripples.

Fortunately, there are alternative ways to treat anxiety and depression.

In this video, we are going to turn to Carl Jung, one of history's greatest

psychiatrists, for drug-free advice on how to find a cure to these psychological disorders.

The elite, wrote Jung, still cling firmly to the notion that anxiety disorders originate

in alterations within the brain. Unfortunately, many run-of-the-mill doctors still swear by this gospel to the detriment of their patients,

whom our age produces and swarms.

Nearly all these patients have been convinced by the medical dogma that their sickness is of a physical nature.

Jung believed that most cases of anxiety and depression are not the product of a faulty brain,

but of a faulty way of life. The first step in Jung's method of treatment, therefore,

was not a drug prescription, but a dose of psychological insight, insight regarding what to expect from life and insight into what it takes to change. With respect to the former, Jung noted that many people

believe that life should be easy, suffering kept to a minimum and difficulties avoided. But

Jung would be blunt with his patients telling them that life is not easy and comfort and peace

are not our natural state. Or as Jung wrote, in the last resort it is highly improbable that there

could ever be a therapy that got rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulty. They are necessary

for health. What concerns us here is only an excessive amount of them.

Accepting that difficulties are inevitable and nothing worth achieving comes easy,

places us on the firm ground of reality from which to change.

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