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| 04 Nov 2009 01:30:22 pm |
 Stress, Anxiety, Anger & Depression - part 2 |
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Treatment
Research suggests that adding appropriate therapeutic interventions to medication in the treatment of depression and anxiety increases the success rate (in terms of relapse) from around 60% to something like 90%. However there is also evidence to suggest that the new skills and learnings are state-related so that it is preferable (but not essential) to treat clients who are either coming off their medication, or have not taken medication in the first place.
We know that depression can be highly responsive to good therapy treatment, often within about 12 sessions. Getting the symptom remissions is not the difficult part - medication alone can do that. The difficult part is in preventing relapses and teaching the person how to re-interpret life experiences in a way that isn’t depressing. Hypnotherapy does not address biological factors but it can be valuable in addressing social and environmental ones - relationship problems, cognitive distortions, faulty attributions and other depressogenic patterns. I look at how this person thinks, how they respond, how they gather and organise information, how they decide on a particular course of action and how they establish contact with, or ignore, different parts of themselves in different situations.
Hypnotherapy has a great advantage when working with depressed clients in that it offers an opportunity to intervene on multiple dimensions simultaneously - some in awareness, others not. It means the unconscious can be engaged in the therapy process more immediately, which may be less limiting than the treatment being restricted to conscious, insight-oriented approaches exclusively.
Hypnosis may be used superficially to soothe anxiety, interrupt negative rumination, increase responsiveness and establish positive expectancy. It may be used more intensively to facilitate flexibility in rigid, distorted patterns of thinking or interpreting events, reframe meanings attached to experience rooted in faulty belief systems and build positive frames of reference for responding to life from a more effective framework.
You can contact me via www.theconsultingrooms.co.uk or by telephone on +44 (0)1278 784490. Personal consultations are available in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset which is easily accessible from Bristol, Bath and North Somerset, South Wales, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Devon. You will find me very close to the M5 junction 22 at Brent Knoll between Bridgwater and Weston-super-Mare. |
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