As per Beyond Blue data, 1 in 16 people in Australia are currently experiencing depression. Those aged 16 to 24 years of age, are reported to be the most seriously affected. That is around 180,000 young Australians! Sounds worrisome. What is true for Australia, is equally true for Sydney!
Each one of us has experienced depression at least once in our life. When depression takes over a major portion of your life, it could manifest itself in the form of psychosomatic pains, which can lead you either into alcohol or drug addiction or you hyperactive or make you lethargic, psychotic or may develop suicidal tendencies. Depression may be caused by the suppression of unresolved disagreements, over which we may have no control.
Two common conditions which could cause depression are:
Anxiety and boredom are the earliest signs of depression.
While anxiety is fight response of the body in stressful situations, depression is the flight response which is activated to remove one from an anxious situation.
Boredom is an emotional clash caused due to suppression of anger, guilt or the feeling of uselessness.
What does an average Sydney bloke do when he is bored?
Go out or contact another person. This is exactly the type of thing an emotionally healthy person would do, find an alternative to the boredom. But an emotionally unhealthy person, lives in his boredom which in turn takes him into depression.
While experiencing depression, you could feel desolate, useless and unable to vent your feelings. Kindly note, that venting occurs completely and permanently through the subconscious mind whilst dreaming or under Hypnotherapy.
Your Inability to vent through dreams could be due to:
This can be very well treated by Hypnotherapy where your Hypnotherapist will unblock this build-up, drain those negative feelings and fill the space with positive suggestions.
As you start feeling sad and depressed, your body starts sending signals to the brain to vent, and as I have mentioned earlier, venting in our mind is associated with sleep, this is one reason why you could be craving for more sleep. But even after waking up you could feel less refreshed, this is because the anxieties that made you depressed are haven’t been dealt with. Your effective venting mechanism is blocked. Unless we treat the events that generates depression, you shall crave more sleep which would lead into further depressive state that shall become the most predominant aspect of your life. This is exactly the time when one finds resort into artificial stimulants thinking that they would help them come out of this situation.
Living in state of depression leads you into the state of continued hyper-suggestibility. This is a state where you can experience extreme sensitivity and suggestibility to everything around you. Some of the examples could be extreme sensitivity to sound, light, touch or when spoken to. Your state of depression is directly proportional to your hyper-suggestibility and vice versa.
Resolving your unresolved conflicts is the best solution to depression which would help you vent through your regular dream cycle.
There are 2 types of suggestible though: Physical and Emotional.
The positive suggestions and alternatives are important to people with depression to survive; because if a person, with depression loses his sight of options they feel that they have ran into a dead end, and it could be this thought that might drive them into suicidal ideation or suicidal attempt.
Hypnotherapy is one such tool that can help you if you are depressed because it approaches your subconscious mind at a much faster rate than conscious therapy which helps in rapid resolution of conflicts.
Following are means that could be adopted to modify depression:
