Anxiety and depressive illness are treatable.

We now know that negative thought patterns disrupt the brain’s chemistry, not the other way round.

The accidental misuse of our imagination through over-thinking and worry creates the majority of anxiety and depressive illness - a form of repetitive, narrowed focus or ‘negative’ hypnosis.

Correcting and reinforcing healthier ways of using your imagination through hypnotherapy can safely lift trauma, heal emotional wounds and improve emotional resilience to create genuine, long term recovery.

If you are struggling with a depressive illness such as anxiety, please know that you are not alone. It is truly ‘The Curse of The Strong*’ affecting people who struggle on beyond capacity to cope with stress, trauma and pressure.

There are many myths surrounding anxiety and depressive illness.

  • Actually it’s our thought patterns that create problematic changes within the brain, not the other way round.

  • Most often it’s faulty thinking styles (not bad genes) that are conditioned and passed down through families.

Recovery and staying well are possible once you become aware of your own patterns, and actively manage worry and sleep cycles.

Understanding the link between anxiety, depression and REM dream cycles is important.

Some analytical counselling approaches encourage repeated re-examining of the past. This isn’t necessary, and can even be harmful since a depressed brain is already locked into a negative-trance state of worry and over-thinking, and importantly, over-dreaming (3x more than non).
This is what creates exhaustion upon waking no matter how long the sleep, and disrupts to so many essential body systems: hormones, immunity and digestion in particular.

The key to lifting anxiety and depression is understanding what depressive illness is, why it happens specifically for you and creating a solution-based plan for emotional health which will:

- Relieve stress and distress
- Teach simple relaxation techniques to regulate the nervous system
- Stop overthinking and worry
- Reduce exhausting over-dreaming sleep cycles
- Restore hope and esteem
- Identify which innate needs are not being met (or being met in harmful ways)
- Reconnect to inner resources and natural strengths
- Find present and future solutions - without re-traumatising or emotional archeology
- Bring greater self awareness and mindfulness to prevent relapse

We know that depression is not caused by bad life experiences but in the way we have learnt to respond to these. With new understanding and coping skills you can move on and thrive in life, responding to challenge with strength, resilience and calm.

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* Recommended Reading - Depressive Illness: The Curse of The Strong by Dr Tim Cantopher.