Grief, depression, and helplessness are merely expressions of feeling overloaded or overwhelmed. Grief happens when you feel like there is no empowering meaning for something that has happened, or that your life is being negatively impacted by people, events, or forces that are outside your control. People in this state become overwhelmed and often begin to feel that nothing can change the situation, that the problem is too big\u2014it\u2019s permanent, pervasive, and personal. People go into these emotional states whenever they perceive their world in a way that makes them feel like there\u2019s more going on than they can possibly deal with, i.e., the pace, amount, or intensity of sensations seems overwhelming.
\nThe message of being overwhelmed is that you need to reevaluate what\u2019s most important to you in this situation. The reason you\u2019re overloaded is that you\u2019re trying to deal with too many things at once, and you\u2019re trying to change everything overnight. The feeling of being overloaded or overwhelmed disrupts and destroys more people\u2019s lives than just about any other emotion.<\/p>\n
Our self-esteem is often tied to our ability to control our environments. When we create an environment inside our minds that has too many intense and simultaneous demands upon us, of course we\u2019ll feel overloaded. But we also have the power to change this by focusing on what we can control and dealing with it a step at a time.
\nTony Robbins. \u201cAwaken the Giant Within.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grief, depression, and helplessness are merely expressions of feeling overloaded or overwhelmed. Grief happens when you feel like there is no empowering meaning for something that has happened, or that your life is being negatively impacted by people, events, or forces that are outside your control. People in this state become overwhelmed and often begin …<\/p>\n