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Anti-depressant Medication & Therapy
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 negative thought processes, anguish and anxiety suffered in the past.
At the Bristol Hypnotherapy Clinic the treatment for depression is cognitive behavioural therapy CBT and interpersonal approaches. Utilizing psychotherapy and CBT 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 in turn can prevent new learning abilities. Anti-depressant agents have been found to have a high incidence of relapse into depression. Sometimes anti-depressant medication can work well, certainly for short term use, and in acute sudden onset stage, or a major depressive illness. It would be unfair to say that all people do not get relief from medication, and in some instances, are definitely required.
Drugs can often suppress underlying problems, only to find when the patient stops taking the anti-depressant drug, they become depressed. There is a higher relapse rate from medication than therapy. Anti-depressant medication cannot teach coping skills, problem solving skills, resolve interpersonal issues, or protect against reoccurrence of depressive episodes.
Psychoanalysis / CBT provides and creates skill building, problem solving, goal achieving skills and a greater degree of empowerment and perception. These are behaviours an anti-depressant agent cannot accomplish. Relapse rate is significantly reduced as these techniques provide effective preventative skills. Clinical hypnosis creates effectiveness of psychoanalysis, CBT and interpersonal related skill therapy, creates and 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 subconscious 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, creating ways for you to think differently, act differently, and eventually feel differently.
The use of hypnosis significantly reduces therapy sessions. Brief therapy is important as elongated therapy causes the client to believe they are more ill than they are, and also become more reliant on a therapist over long term therapy. The idea is to become more reliant upon themselves.
Virtually all CBT sessions are recorded onto a CD for the client to play during each session. Self-help assignments are provided, so the client can obtain a better approach to behaviors. My aim is, to teach the individual to become their own therapist.
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