Depression
Depression is caused when there is a shortage of Serotonin, a brain chemical. One can correct any minor chemical imbalance with a simple and effective exercise – it involves relaxing by taking long, deep breaths. Breathe in and out slowly and focus your mind on becoming calmer, this will allow you to feel better.
Depression covers a wide range of states from negativity to clinical depression – a major disorder where a person suffers a persistent and abnormal lowering of mood and a loss of interest in everyday life. Doctors make a diagnosis of this illness if a patient experiences a group of symptoms for longer than two weeks.
Symptoms include – despair, bouts of uncontrollable weeping, lethargy, self-hatred, exhaustion, hypochondria, and in severe cases, delusions and hallucinations.
Clinical depression is relatively common and apart from the biological cause*, this emotional state can occur from a series of events in a person’s life and their attitude towards them.
Hypnotherapy can help people to accept their situation and to dispel negative feelings; it also can be used in conjunction with behavioural and cognitive therapy.
*Abnormal levels of Serotonin.
Jack Dee wards off depression with hypnotherapy
In a recent interviews with Bryony Gordon from The Telegraph, Jack Dee discusses how he uses hypnotherapy on a casual but regular basis to, as he puts it, “reset the brain”. He says, “I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long – I didn’t function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out. Plus, I found another way…..” He trails off.
And that was?
“Hypnotherapy.”
Hang on. Airy-fairy hypnotherapy?
“It’s very good. I mean it’s only really talking. I always think of it as being a bit like a brain message. It just sort of resets you. Sometimes you have to switch the computer on and turn it back off again. I try and do it once a month and no more, because you can end up depending on things. I don’t want to come off stage and think I did a good gig just because I was wearing red socks. Life would become intolerable.”
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