Mental Depression And How To Talk Yourself Out Of It With Nlp

2008-04-07 Word Count: 799 Category: Depression

Some people call it the 'blues' and some people call it the 'pits' and some call it 'feeling down in the dumps'. But whatever you may call it, being depressed is a horrible feeling.

The most common types of depression are:

Major Depression, which is characterized by sadness, sleep disorders, and a decreased or absent appetite. Often when an individual is in a major depression, there is a complete lack of drive and motivation and the sufferer does not want to participate in life. Some people are severely disabled by depression, and some may even contemplate suicide.

Dysthymia: This is a less severe form of long-term depression that usually does not totally disable the individual. But it prevents the person from feeling motivated and functioning at optimum levels. Sometimes people who are struggling with Dysthymia also suffer from Major Depression, and when this occurs it is referred to as double-depression.

Manic Depression is also known as Bipolar Disorder. This type of depression is not as common as the first two. It involves phases of the manic state, alternated with the depressed state. This is often a long-term chronic disorder. Sometimes the mood swings are very rapid. But generally speaking, the onset tends to be gradual.

There are many variations of depression; the aforementioned are only the most common.

Some of the symptoms of depression include:

Anxiety; pessimism; sadness; insomnia and other sleep disorders; feelings of worthlessness; guilt; weight loss; fatigue; restlessness; headaches; pain; and thoughts of suicide.

Sources of Depression:

As previously stated, there are several types of depression: Major Depression; Manic Depression; and Dysthymia being three of the more common forms.

Some types of depression run in families. Living in a stressful environment can lead to depression. A trauma such as a serious loss, problems in a relationship, or financial problems can also precipitate a depression.

Women are twice as likely to suffer from depression as men are, but scientists do not know why.

If you are suffering from depression, you will want to seek the advice of your physician. Your doctor may prescribe drugs for you. But you should keep in mind that every medication has side effects.

Wouldn't it be amazing if you could regulate and eliminate your depression just by having certain thoughts? I know that this sounds too good to be true, but quite often, many types of depression are simply caused by thinking negative thoughts.

You can see this for yourself at this very moment. It is really quite basic and simple. Just use your imagination to think about something that you feel is very troubling or sad. Go ahead, think about it right now! Then return to this article.

OK, so what happened? If you really got into it and visualized the sad situation, you started to feel sad and a bit depressed. And the more you allow yourself to stay in that thought pattern, the sadder you'll feel. As you keep having those thoughts and continue feeling sadder, you lead yourself into a gradually intensifying depression.

The good news is that if you focus on a positive memory, then you'll supplant that depression and sadness and have happy feelings instead.

Please pay careful attention now, because here are the keys to eliminating your depression: Our persistent thoughts emerge from the unconscious. These are the thoughts that we find ourselves automatically thinking about throughout the day.

If the persistent thoughts that keep popping into your mind are about your problems or sad experiences, then you raise your levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.

But here is the 'Light at the end of the tunnel': Since hypnosis can be used to change our unconscious thoughts, NLP and self hypnosis stress management CDs will rapidly change the way that you think, feel, and behave. The best part is that the same exact techniques that help reduce stress also work equally well for eliminating depression!

Listen to me now, because I will tell you exactly why and how it's going to happen. Hypnosis is a natural state of mind. Specifically, it's the Alpha state of consciousness. We go through the Alpha state as we are falling asleep at night. And we go through it once more as we wake up in the morning. We also enter the Alpha state when we are imagining and daydreaming.

The unconscious is the seat of our emotions, and it's like a computer; the input controls the output! Hypnotherapy is an excellent tool for reaching directly into the unconscious and reprogramming it to automatically divert you from negative thoughts, and promote positive thoughts. It is a tool that allows you to bypass the consciousness to create positive expectations, which will then generate positive feelings. You can overcome depression through hypnotherapy.

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Alan B. Densky, CH is a certified hypnotist and NLP Practitioner. He has helped thousands of clients since 1978. He offers CDs for self-hypnosis depression therapy. Visit his Neuro-VISION hypnotherapy site for the hypnosis article index, or watch his free videos on hypnosis. www.neuro-vision.us/ www.neuro-vision.us/Products/DepressionTreatmentHypnosisCD.htm