3 steps you MUST take when treating depression

Depression is a scary word. The prospect of treating depression without drugs feels daunting to many therapists. But we can really be optimistic when treating depressed people. Why?

Because antidepressant medication

• doesn’t significantly outperform placebos (1); and
• doesn’t work at all for two thirds of people (and has many possible side effects).

If you have the right skills, then any depressed person who finds you will be in luck – although they won’t necessarily see it like that at first!

To treat depression effectively we need to understand that:

• Depression is not ‘genetic’. People are not biologically predestined. It’s not caused by neurobiology (although it has neurobiological effects (2)). Depressive attitudes (such as pessimism, perfectionism, black and white thinking, learned helplessness) are learned rather than ‘passed on through genes’.
• Depression is a state of physical and mental exhaustion produced from too much negative non-solution-focused rumination, leading, in turn, to an excess of REM sleep which further exhausts the depressed person. (3)
• The depressed person has become stuck and needs help to think, feel and act differently and to get the rest they need.

Here are three essential steps to treating depression.

Read full article: How to treat depression the easy way

Hypnosis and the treatment of depression

If you want to learn a really empowering and uplifting process for treating depression, you can do no better than our top notch online depression treatment course. These courses run throughout the year, and the new dates will be announced soon.

Meanwhile, you can find out exactly what you will learn on the course and exactly how it will benefit you (and your clients) by visiting our Lift Depression Fast information page. Keep an eye out – there’ll be early bird discounts for those who register first!

See you next time!

Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995

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