Because you’re not powerless, if you choose not to be.
Preach. I seem to get people that ask me how to work through their anxiety pretty regularly and it seems most people don't like the response that they have to have believe that it's something they can do and work through it. I would love to solve everyone's depression and anxiety issues that asks for help, but it seems the only cure that I ever found is more self awareness and mindfulness and that isn't something anyone can make someone else have. Hopefully more articles like this and more talking about it will help people that need it get there eventually. We all stumble from time to time, but it's no reason to give up and it seems we all have to learn that in our own time. Great post!
I totally agree and I ge the same thing when I try to tell some people how they can eradicate anxiety. The one thing I would add is that there are certain alternative therapies which do work (hypnotherapy, NLP, reiki to name but three), so you can add that to the mindfulness and self-help.
Of course, if you don't have the belief you can work through it in the first place, you will never try these things and that's a common issue I find - people won't even try because they've already given up or think meds are the only way.