You can only deal with depression through comprehensive treatment, the most important element of which is psychotherapy. One of the effective methods of psychotherapy is hypnosis, which has not been studied at all in the context of psychiatric care for a person with depressive disorders.
The usefulness of hypnosis in depression
The peculiarity of depressive states is that a person, even understanding and realizing his problem, cannot solve it. When he consciously tries to suppress negative thoughts and feelings, the brain perceives this only as confirmation of depression. When the patient thinks about how to overcome the disease, he thinks of the disease, and not of recovery, which prevents him from recovering. It’s difficult to focus on something positive, interesting and inspiring during a depression.
It becomes an indispensable treatment for depression with hypnosis. All positive thoughts, new habits, attitudes and features of perception of reality penetrate immediately into the subconscious, due to which consciousness begins to act in a positive way. The only thing a patient needs with this method of treatment is a good imagination, which will create joyful pictures of a positive future.
Method effectiveness
In certain cases, psychotherapists consider treatment of depression with hypnosis as the only possible way to help a person, because sometimes it is only thanks to trance methods that one can change the perception of reality and existing negative attitudes. Treatment of depression with hypnosis helps to restore interest in life, eliminate gloomy obsessive thoughts, relieve feelings of heaviness and other negative somatic sensations. Thanks to trance techniques, a person achieves inner peace and receives a boost of energy.
After a hypnotic session, a person often does not realize exactly how hypnosis helped him to change his own thoughts, since the mind does not perceive the healing process during a trance. However, a person achieves the main thing - recovery, changing the past pattern of thinking and behavior.
There is a widespread belief that hypnosis can be harmful to mental health just because the patient’s mind does not control the process in any way. Scientists have proven that the human psyche self-regulates during a therapeutic trance, and therefore there is no danger to the patient’s mental health.