Depressed? depression and sadness succesfully treated with hypnosis and hypnotherapy, serving Bath, Bristol, From, Westbury and Warminster.

Who gets depressed?
Stress can lead to depression and depression causes stress however depression comes with the same enormous stigma attached as does any area of mental health .There have been many misconceived ideas about depressed people that they are weak, or just feel sorry for themselves. They are told to “snap out of it” or “there are people worse off than you”. This clearly is not an answer, and often makes the person feel guilty – or worse about their condition.

Day to day living has become more stressful for many people, changes in society, a higher divorce / separation rate and the general break up of families, job insecurity, being too fat or too thin. Those who do not perceive themselves as successful, even with nice car, house, or family – and millionaires can be depressed.

In the younger category, pressures on children to do better at school, with the now increasing vast array of subjects can lead to despair and frustration, that may cause anxiety, helplessness or hopelessness.

Of course, not everyone who experiences these problems or stresses becomes depressed. However, there are numerous amounts of people, thought to be 50% go untreated, because either they don’t know they are depressed, or a consultation with their Health Practitioner fails to diagnose depression.
Any person young or old, male or female can become depressed. Depression is increasing in all age groups, but particularly in the younger teenage group and it is estimated to be around 42% common amongst children that have grown up with a parent that is depressed. Females tend to experience depression twice as frequently as males. This can be down to them finding it difficult to go out and socialise, especially if they are looking after children and feel more ‘trapped’ in the home environment. Menopause, weight gain, hypertension, marriage problems are all possible negative attributes in their lives.

Men tend to experience depression with job loss, not being promoted, arguments at home, getting older and perhaps with health problems. They frequently do not seek therapy or go to their Doctor. It is easier for them however to go out with their friends, socialize and drink more alcohol – which can suppress their underlying anxieties and depression (but of course cause more long term health problems)

Children can be misdiagnosed as having a behavioral, a learning disability. Certainly being bullied at school can cause depression.

Depression in the elderly, where children have left home whom they no longer see believe that their life is over, or have some illness or disease, which again may be undiagnosed. Clinical depression really refers to someone that is depressed and has some form of physical illness that is causing the depression. However it seems that many professionals now refer to depression as ‘clinical’.

Symptoms of depression
Symptoms in five of the following – and for at least two weeks or more show a major depressive illness:
• Sadness, feeling ‘down’ or ‘blue’
• Negative thoughts or feelings
• Feeling hopeless, helpless, worthless
• Inappropriate guilt
• Pessimistic about the future
• Inability to obtain pleasure, social, sexual
• Decreased energy, fatigue
• Memory loss or no concentration
• Difficulty in making decisions
• Agitation
• Irritable or restless
• Sleep problems, cannot get to sleep, wake up and cannot get back to sleep, wake up early
• Sleeping too much
• Loss of appetite Over eating
• Suicidal ideology

So the preconception of the depressed person in a permanent state of misery and despair is woefully misleading. If you find that you just don’t get any pleasure or excitement from any activity that used to stimulate you, you could be mildly depressed. Or if your glass is always half empty, if the grass seems always to be greener on the other side and whatever you do to change your physical circumstances , the glass is still half empty, and the grass is still the same. You could be depressed.
Depression is a symptom of stress, and anxiety, which in turn is merely a representation of the unconscious turmoil inside of us, but outside our control. Some of the symptoms of depression can be removed by clinical hypnotherapy. This means using positive suggestion to reframe how one views things. But these will certainly not remove the cause. Some forms of regressive hypnotherapy (sometimes referred to as analytical ) will take the client back to fish for a direct cause, and release the emotion attached therefore symptoms will go. Depression has many symptoms. To cure depression, the cause of the depression, not the symptom must be treated.


Analytical therapy ( Pure Hypnoanalysis )

Hypno-analysis, a very special type of hypnotherapy, is one of the best methods in the world for treating emotional, psychological or anxiety-related problems. IAPH hypnotherapists specialise in a 'pure' type of hypno-analysis which is not taught nor practiced anywhere else in the world. It is unique and a uniquely successful therapy which allows the client to resolve the very root cause of their problem, helping them to change their lives signifcantly in a short space of time.
Analytical therapy is used to discover the sensitizing event ( the cause ) of psychological problems. This is simply an emotional conflict from childhood. PURE HYPNOANALYSIS will allow a flow of memories, to guide you to a conflict that in childhood was simply locked away .

PURE HYPNOANALYSIS will allow the emotional content release. The emotion once released will take with it its many direct and indirect symptoms.

The conflict can then be viewed as an adult and placed in proper perspective, ensuring the anxiety, and the symptoms cannot return.

Rest assured, if you come and see me, Danny Nuttall, at the Bath and West Hypnotherapy Clinic, I will use all my clinical skills and experience in order to help you resolve your problem as quickly as possible