Depression

Depression, can originate for many reasons and to do with many situations but when it comes home to roost it seems to centre a lot around feelings of worthlessness and a sort of global feeling that " nothing goes right for me."

It might also be focused on a feeling that I am " not good enough" in a way that has become a generalised belief about myself.

It might also be because I believe that the world is an awful place in which bad things happen, for no reason to people whom they shouldn't happen to.

If we use this as a perspective, any complex personal depression can be made much more specific by looking at what the underlying beliefs are and establishing whether in fact those beliefs are true or actually at odds with reality.

You could say that in terms of hypnosis our depression is a state of being hypnotised by beliefs that are in some way related to the above categories. Our world is seen through the filter of these beliefs. The hypnosis for depression is a sort of "anti-hypnosis" that works to stimulate us to wake up from the depression trance by becoming very clear about the nature of these compelling beliefs, when they affect us, the thoughts that follow from them and the feelings and emotions that spring from them.

The main suggestion in hypnosis is to create a detachment from the strong feelings involved in depression and to dispute what the thoughts behind those feelings are telling you. There is a strong cognitive behavoioural emphasis in this approach, with hypnosis powerfully suggesting a shift in orientation away from limiting negative beliefs

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