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depression
Depression can be an incredibly debilitating condition. Feelings can range from feeling persistantly low and disinterested in the things you are normally interested in, to deep sadness and hopelessness. Depression is associated with stress, anxiety, and panic and may arise from these conditions although sometimes people feel that they cannot pinpoint the source of their depression.
There are a number of other symptoms beyond the core ones mentioned above that could indicate depression. Loss of energy and feeling particularly fatigued is common, people can spend much of their time in bed because they feel they do not have the energy to rise, however this can sometimes be due to other symptoms such as generalised anxiety that go hand in hand with depression.
Indecisiveness and suffering from lapses in concentration on tasks that you could usually remained focused upon can be a sign of depression. People with depression may for example find it hard to read, and may have to re-read lines and paragraphs to absorb the information.
People with depression often have feelings of guilt or worthlessness, but in instances where it cannot be justified or related to any particular behaviour or action. This implies that the individual is suffering from distorted thinking patterns, possibly arising from a traumatic event which has given them a bias or resulted in a filtering of information that is not realistic, particularly with reagrd to themselves and their place in the environment or their context within social settings.
One common question people ask is, what causes depression? Why am I feeling this way? Why do I feel depressed and others do not? The truth is, the exact cause is not always clear, some people are more prone to having depressive bouts than others and it becomes a regular feature in their lives and others may never have experienced depression only for it to arise suddenly and be the only episode they ever suffer from.
Causes of depression can be split into two main categories; emotional and biological, although the truth is that it is more accurate to think of this as a two way street, these two aspects are not separate and are part of a depression continuum. People may have mal-functions in their hormone secretions, such as seretonin, that can lead to low mood or be pushed into a more long term sadness by a negative emotional event such as the loss of a loved one.
Fortunately, Hypnotherapy can be effective in treating depression. By using positive visualisations and projecting ourselves into a more desired circumstance, or identifying the defining cause and addressing it independently. we may try and improve the negative feelings asscociated with depression.
Our habitual ways of thinking are inextricably connected to our environment. It reinforces our behaviours, triggering cyclical thoughts and emotions and gives signals to our subconscious that we should be being a certain way. This continual triggering strengthens thought processes. Hypnotherapy allows us to remove ourselves from our usual environmental stimuli and give us an opportunity to break negative cyclical thoughts. In addition to this Sheffield City Hypnotherapy has an emphasis on coaching and encouraging people to break their routines outside the therapy room leading to high rates of improvements in mood.