Releasing trapped emotions

Anxiety disorders affect 40 million U.S. adults ages 18 and older, sccording to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Here are some of Dr. Bradley Nelson’s insights into emotional causes of mental illness and why they often go undiagnosed: cans takes medication to treat depression and anxiety, yet researchers worry these drugs long-term drawbacks that outweigh

• Conventional medicine diagnoses mental illness by looking at a collection of symptoms and determining which named disease matches those symptoms.

• Labeling illness this way overlooks underlying emotional issues and their relationship to other health problems.

Mental illness often affects people who are highly sensitive and empathic. People can free themselves of a major underlying cause of anxiety and other forms of mental illness by learning to release trapped emotions, Dr. Nelson says. Instructions are available free at emotioncodegift.com.