The term emotional well-being baseline refers to the place where one feels the most emotionally stable and well. Think of one of those days when you are moving through life with the wind at your back, with minimal effort and a bounce in your step. If you are faced with a situation that you perceive as being challenging or stressful, your anxiety will increase, and this is normal. Once the challenge or test has been faced you have the coping skills with the help of certain brain chemistry movement to return your emotional well-being baseline. Now, let’s say another event occurs that you perceive as depressing once you have processed those feelings with the help of your coping skills and brain chemistry movement you are able to return once again to the baseline.
This is the normal ebb and flow of life. Neutral events occur all throughout our life, we perceive them, feelings are felt, and we return to emotional well-being and move on to the next event. However, a person can develop a condition where they overreact to anxiety and/or depression in such a way that it becomes difficult for them to find their emotional well-being baseline. They may develop an anxiety or depressive disorder requiring either mental health therapy, medication, alternative methods, or some combination of strategies.