Hypnotherapy for Depression: How We Actually Work With Low Mood
You can’t really understand depression without looking at the life someone is living, or the life someone has lived.
When people hear the phrase hypnotherapy for depression, they sometimes imagine lying back with their eyes closed while a hypnotherapist repeatedly tells them to feel happy, think positively and wake up transformed.
That isn’t how I think about depression, and it isn’t how I was trained to work with it.
Depression is usually much more complex than simply “feeling sad”. It can affect motivation, sleep, concentration, relationships, behaviour, self-worth, the body, and perhaps most importantly, a person’s ability to imagine that life could ever feel different.
So when I work with depression or persistent low mood, I’m interested in a much bigger question:
What is keeping this particular person’s depression going?
And from there: What needs to change?
Hypnosis can be a very useful part of that process, but it is only one part.
My approach combines hypnotherapy
...Summer Depression and Hypnotherapy: When Sunshine Starts to Feel Heavy
Everyone talks about the winter blues: grey skies, short days, damp coats, and that familiar British gloom that creeps under the door and sits on your chest.
Far fewer people talk about summer depression.
Because summer is meant to be the easy season, right? Picnics, bare arms, long evenings, flirtation, freedom and Aperol-coloured possibility. Everyone appears to be living inside an advert for joy.
So when summer arrives and your mood drops, it can feel deeply confusing. You may feel anxious, exposed, tired, restless, flat or strangely trapped, as though everyone else received the manual for summer while your nervous system is still rummaging through a drawer full of tangled chargers.
I understand this personally.
For years, I used to experience terrible winter SAD. It was crippling. I was teaching singing at the time, doing lesson after lesson, feeling bored, heavy, tired and depressed. Winter would arrive and something in me would wither.
I explored food, sugar, energy and hab...
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