subject: Help Depression With Hypnosis [print this page] The truth of the matter is that people feel depressed from time to time. The definition of depression is something that affects your ability to either work or function in a normal day-to-day operative manner. The very fact of the matter is that one in six Americans suffer from a bout of depression from time to time and the only way to get back to the good feeling of a homeostatic lifestyle is to seek professional help.
This has been proven time and time again and the reason why self-therapy and self-medication are not advisable or recommended by the health professionals and the mental health experts is that those are dangerous and have a very low rate of success. There happens to be a way to feel better that is considered a professional occupation and that is through hypnosis training.
Detrimental and Dangerous
Before we explain what hypnosis can do for you, we have to understand how detrimental and dangerous even the most minor of depressive episodes can be for an individual. One could look at another definition alone of depression and see that it states that this is a feeling or a state of mind that affects both the mental emotions as well as physical symptoms of a person and last for an undetermined amount of time. Another way of defining depression is a state of being that lasts for a long period of time and as a result negatively affects your body, mood and thoughts. Either way you feel blue or you don't know what to do about it.
You Can Feel Better
A true empirical case study of depression is much different than just feeling bad temporarily for losing a game of Monopoly or coming in second to last in the weekend bowling tournament. Sometimes severe depression is brought upon by the loss of a love one and many individuals turn to antidepressants for relief but this is considered as only a temporary Band-Aid until the real issue can be dealt with deep inside of the human mind.
Accessing Subconscious
There are specialists who have hypnosis training and can be of assistance to individuals who are suffering through bouts of depression by accessing their subconscious mind and helping them feel better. Before the specialist can be of assistance he or she must figure out why the individual feels the way they do and then create a problem resolution scenario.
Keyword
The average session usually starts off with the specialists instructing the patient to sit or lie down and asking them to totally relax. Once they are in a trancelike state the hypnosis specialists will then use a hypnotic suggestion in the form of a keyword to alleviate depression and the feelings of the blues. What happens after the specialist feels that the patient is under a hypnotic trance is that the keyword will be introduced. The beauty about a hypnotic suggestion is that if one keyword doesn't work the specialist moves to another until one that works is found that strikes a chord in the individual subconscious mind and then the real session begins.
Time to Get to Work
A great benefit of going to multiple sessions is that even though you are paying by the hour and a knee-jerk reaction is to get the most bang for your buck, after a few sessions you will see a marked improvement in both your emotional feeling and your physical well-being. Another benefit of going to an unconventional hypnotherapist for treatment of depression is the lack of side effects that are always present when you take antidepressants or mood stabilizers.
You Need to Help Too
We have covered what role the hypnotherapist plays in this alleviation of depression but we also need to touch upon the fact that you, the patient, will need to do some work as well. You have to set interior and exterior goals for yourself so that you have a reason to carry on with life and to feel better. You do have to have goal sets in order for the entire program to be effective. Patients who can take hold of their lives after hypnosis sessions find that they are placed back into a positioning and a return to what life used to be for these individuals, happy and carefree but not perfect. The hardest part for most individuals working on depression is to admit that they have a problem in the first place. These individuals need help and this is where friends and family can come in and poke and prod the person until they agree to do something positive about their issue.
Positive Change
Hypnosis training can help bring about a positive change in the way you feel and this is the goal of this form of treatment for depression. It wasn't that many years ago that people had no idea how to handle individuals with depression. Thank goodness that we have found ways to treat this mental as well as physical disorder and now with the help of a specialists with hypnosis training we can do so much from those suffering from this type of mental disorder.
