CBT cognitive behavioural therapy for depression

Depression has gone from being one of the least to one of the most understood of the many emotional disorders. It can effect any one of both sexes and at any age, has many causes, and as a result has many viable avenues of treatment. Mildly and severely depressed client’s find themselves in situations that are enormously painful and who need help to find a way out. It can effect you physically, causing problems such as eating, sleep disturbance, a lowered sex drive, fatigue and anxiety. Cognitively, depression can effect your ability to think clearly, making it difficult to focus attention, poor memory, causing someone depressed to make errors in judgement and decision making.

If they think about the future, they tend to project into the future the same kind of pain, hurt and anxiety suffered in the past.

At the Bristol Hypnotherapy Clinic the treatment for depression is cognitive behavioural therapy CBT and interpersonal approaches. Utilizing psychoanalysis within hypnosis show greater therapeutic outcomes than drug therapy. Although medication may have a faster effectiveness for sleep problems, it has distinctively more side effects and habituation. They can also produce undesired thought and feeling processes, which can prevent new learning abilities. Anti-depressant agents have been found to have a high incidence of relapse.

Psychoanalysis / CBT provides and creates skill building, problem solving, goal achieving skills and a greater degree of empowerment and perception. These are things an anti-depressant agent cannot accomplish. Relapse rate is significantly reduced as these techniques provide effective preventative skills. Clinical hypnosis creates effectiveness of psychoanalysis, which enables unique specific positive changes to take place in the depressed individual. People that have been depressed for a long time, sometimes from their childhood days usually have difficulty being positive on a day to day basis. By using the extraordinary resources of the unconscious mind one has the ability to make choices, that will bring about the kind of things that you want to have happen tomorrow, and in the future, which leads you to think differently, act differently, and eventually feel differently.

Psychotherapy and CBT is well established in treating depression, incorporated with hypnosis provides positive outcomes within the brief therapy framework.

For further information on depression

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Email david@hypnotherapy-clinic.co.uk

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