In association with www.BT3EFT.com and www.BESTherapies3.com
Say "Get-Knotted!" - to trouble and strife in your life
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In association with www.BT3EFT.com and www.BESTherapies3.com
Say "Get-Knotted!" - to trouble and strife in your life
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De-press!
Some of our clients have had nightmares thinking they'll face hundreds - if not thousands - of pounds in fees while going through therapy.
With the methods we teach you'll help yourself wake each morning inspired to begin living all you are capable of - and more.
Our truly non-invasive, quick and lasting therapy can help you discover how to let go and live and free yourself from anxiety and fear. I've written a book about how to help yourself through Depression click here for more details Therapy can be done In-person, Online, On phone or even reading through my book in your own time ... as well as reading my blogs online (see About Us) the choice is yours
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What is Depression? When your innate physical or emotional needs are not being met you can sink into a depressed mood and, instead of dealing with this situation, you begin to worry about it misusing your imagination. Worry becomes a big concern. This increases the amount of dreaming you do, upsetting the balance between slow-wave, recuperative sleep and dream sleep. Consequently you start to develop an imbalance between energy burning dream sleep and refreshing slow-wave sleep. Soon you start to wake up feeling tired and unmotivated. When you are depressed and anxious you dream far more intensely than others who are not depressed. This makes you worry even more as you feel that, "something is wrong with me". Be assured that depression is a human vulnerability. Suppose you have a setback or suffer some traumatic event that interferes with getting your innate needs met. This arouses negative expectations in the autonomic nervous system feelings of frustration, being 'stressed', anxious, angry, guilty etc. but, instead of taking action to bring the arousal down, which is what the autonomic nervous system is designed to help us do, we start to worry even more, going over and over what's troubling us: 'Why did I lose that job?' "Why do they treat me like this?" 'What is going to happen to me?' 'How am I going to pay my bills?' On and on creating a mountain of negative expectations. This over-stimulates the autonomic arousal system which is why depression is such a strong emotion. All strong emotions focus and lock attention and, with depression, attention stays focused on all the bad things that seem to be happening to us, whether real or illusory. Every little thing you worry about and do not resolve in the day is translated into a bad dream the next night. All these worries have to be worked through in extended and intense periods of dream activity in REM sleep as the brain attempts to rebalance your arousal levels. This upsets the relationship between slow wave sleep and REM sleep. Why you are always tired when you're depressed Extended dreaming is exhausting, not just because it deprives us of restful and restorative slow-wave sleep (that should make up three-quarters of your sleep time), but also because it stimulates your orientation response. This is a vital pathway in the brain that alerts you to interesting things in the day, generating motivation to act, but it can't do this so well if it has been over-used in dream-sleep the previous night. So, the next morning you awake feeling terrible because you haven't really slept, and you find it much harder to get motivated to get up and do anything because the brain mechanism that generates that interest in your life is exhausted as well. Exhaustion on waking and lack of motivation are features common to you if you suffer from depression. Because your normal sense that life is meaningful comes from the actions you take, when your motivation levels are low, life quickly comes to seem meaningless. The natural delight you take in being alive and doing things drains away. How does human givens therapy relieve depression? Human Givens therapists work with the fundamental truth that you do not develop mental illness when your innate emotional needs are being met in balance. Working with this idea they employ techniques from various therapies that have proven effective (interpersonal, cognitive behavioural, solution focused) plus they add the new knowledge you have just read above that shows the importance of vividly creating new expectations in the mind of the patient to 'kick-start' them again. Because depression, like any strong emotion, fogs your thinking, emotional arousal is reduced to start with. The therapist has a range of ways to do this so that you can begin to think more clearly about the situation that is causing you to worry. When you have calmed down the therapist will usually explain what depression is and how it is caused. This in itself is hugely therapeutic for most people since no one else is likely to have explained how and why the feelings arose and they were probably imagining that there was something wrong with them. Simultaneously the therapist will do an informal emotional needs audit to find what needs are not being met in your life so they can begin to tackle the worrying that is causing the problems. Whilst doing this your past achievements, skills and good qualities are also looked for and given as much attention by the therapist as the troublesome history. The therapist will almost certainly use guided imagery to help you learn to change your negative expectations into more positive, realistic and concrete ones to help you re-connect with previously enjoyed activities and rehearse in their imagination doing the things they need to be doing. This helps you become more confident about using your own resources to pick up your life and get on with taking the actions that will help you start meeting your emotional needs once more. Learning how to fulfil these innate needs resolves depression and prevents relapses. Usually much progress is made on the first session but the therapist will always want to see you a couple more times to make sure that progress is maintained and that you are taking steps to change your expectations. Postnatal depression is treated very effectively in exactly the same way. Human givens (HG) therapy is effective on its own but can also be done alongside drug treatment. Read a case-study. Depression: some distortions of fact To be deeply depressed is just about the most awful feeling you can experience, apart from sheer terror. It can disable anyone. But the topic is surrounded by false ideas: Depression, as experienced by the vast majority of sufferers for example, is not
The term 'endogenous depression' is used to describe a low mood that is purely the result of biological factors, such as a brain disorder or neurological dysfunction affecting seratonin, dopamine or other neurotransmitter. Such specific brain damage is very rare. Note: Depressed or anxious people should not have forms of counselling or psychotherapy that concentrates on the past and encourages introspection or emotional arousal. Research shows this is often unintentionally harmful.
So, from this, if you think I know enough about it (and would like me to help you through it), please do give me a call.
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