What is depression?

Depression can affect anyone, regardless of age or gender. The term depression is an umbrella term for a wide range of symptoms from low moods, feeling blue to being unable to perform the normal functions of everyday living.

Depression seems to be increasing in all age groups. Women tend to have a higher depression rate than men. Depression is more common amongst children that have grown up with a parent who is depressed.

Young mothers feel isolated and left out of the social scene if they have to give up work to look after their children especially in nuclear families. Menopause, weight gain, hypertension, growing older, marriage or relationship problems are contributing factors to depression.

Men tend to experience depression with job loss, retirement, being by passed for promotion, marital discord, divorce, growing older and perhaps experiencing health problems.

According to a recent newspaper report, a centre to treat children as young as three is to be set up in a south London hospital. Children with learning disability, certainly those who are bullied at school and subjected to the pressure to do well in the wide array of subjects in the curriculum, can experience a sense of despair and frustration. Of course, not everyone who experience these pressure of problems succumb to depression.

Symptoms

• Sleep problems, inability to sleep or sleeping too much
• Problems with eating – loss of appetite or over eating
• A lowered sex drive, even impotence
• Fatigue, no desire to get out of bed or to do anything
• Anxiety
• Finding no pleasure in life
• Feeling hopeless, helpless, worthless
• Agitation/restlessness
• Inability to concentrate, to think clearly, to focus and concentration may suffer
• Having poor judgement
• Poor memory
• Difficulty making decisions

Types of depression

• Ante natal depression
• Post natal depression
• Clinical depression
• Common depression or Dysthymia – chronic discontent

Treatment

In my experience as a therapist, depression responds well to a combination of hypnoanalysis, NLP(neurolinguistic programming) and psychotherapy, with an individualised programmme designed to lift repressed emotions as well as providing stratgies to change these maladaptive ways of thinking and coping skills for the immediate as well as long term future.

Prior to having hypnosis treatment or arachnophobia, it would not be an exaggeration to say that I had a pathological fear of spiders. Not just live ones but plastic toy ones, pictures in books and images on film. I had been like this since childhood but recently when a rather large spider appeared on my wall, I had one of the worst panic attacks that I can even remember. I decided to seek professional help through hypnosis. After only two sessions I could look at a plastic spider without any hesitation or fear. After the third session I picked it up and when my hypnotherapist suddenly and unexpectedly held a different one in front of me, I simply took it from her hand as though she were handing me a sweet. After my fourth and final session, I felt like a different person, I had completely shed the anxiety that spiders created in me and gained control of my life. Later that evening, I actually picked up, albeit a half dead one but a real spider nevertheless and dropped it into a waste bin.

Hello we are looking at phobias or irrational fears now. There are as many phobias and some quite uncommon like barophobia – the fear of gravity, cacophobia – the fear of ugliness, kyphophobia – the fear of stooping to name a few.

Luckily the clients who come for therapy are those who are afraid of spiders, insects and flying. Clients are usually aware that their fears are irrational but cannot do anything about it. They can rationalise about it yet cannot get rid of it. ‘Its something within themselves but outside their control.’

Phobias like anxiety and mild depression are usually the result of repressed emotions. Emotions that have been repressed give rise to symptoms in the form of phobias, anxiety and panic attacks, feeling low and having a low self esteem as well as a lack of confidence.

Phobias respond well to hypnoanalysis, neuro-linguistic programming and inner-child therapy.

If would you like to come and talk about your phobias and see whether this therapy is for you do give me a call to arrange for a 20 minutes free no obligation consultation in Muswell Hill but hypnosis with neither be used nor demonstrated.

Hypnotherapy has been voted by New Scientist as the easiest and most effective way to kick the habit of smoking. This is what a former smoker has to say:

Everything is going very well. I have not touched a cigarette, and I’m still working hard at the gym.

My head is clear and focussed, I’m more patient and also stronger within myself. I look and feel better everyday, and would like to thank you for what you have done for me.

Do you believe that now is the time to quit the habit for a healthier, fitter, wealthier, younger looking and fresher smelling YOU? Or have your tried a few times to stop but have returned to the habit again and again. Disappointed in yourself? No … please don’t be.

To see why that is so, please visit the tab under Hypnoanalysis. Thanks.

So now you want to take charge and be in control of your life again, not allow a few dried up leaves wrapped in bits of paper to have the upper hand. Well …

The safest and easiest way to stop smoking without drugs is with hypnotherapy. For all you have to do is sit back in a nice comfortable chair and relax. Stopping Smoking can’t get easier than that.

But I would like to warn you about the side effects when you quit the habit for good.
They are :

• Having more energy, with more zest for life.
• Feeling fitter and happier.
• Smelling cleaner and fresher.
• Looking younger.
• Feeling good in yourself for making that decision and sticking to it.
• Free, more in tune with your emotions and with yourself

If you have decided to stop smoking NOW, to be fitter, healthier, smell fresher, look younger, with more energy then call Adeline (Hypnotherapist/Hypnoanalyst) today on 07931 378 197 for a free 20 minutes consultation in Muswell Hill to see how you can be a non-smoker easily and effectively.