Understanding Depression

Depression is often a response to a distressing or traumatic life event. The people and situations connected to these events are known as traumatic triggers. Common examples include:

• The death of a loved one

• Divorce or relationship breakdown

• Job loss or financial hardship (e.g., bankruptcy)

• A diagnosis of cancer or another life-threatening illness

These events can overwhelm your ability to cope, triggering emotional, mental, and physical symptoms.

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Symptoms of Depression

Depression doesn’t always arrive suddenly—it can creep in slowly, like fog covering a clear blue sky. You may feel:

• Exhausted, yet unable to sleep—or sleeping too much

• Numb, tearful, or emotionally overwhelmed

• Uninterested in things that once brought joy

• Unable to get out of bed or function as usual

• Changes in appetite (overeating or undereating)

• Increase in drinking, smoking, or substance use

• Physical aches and pains with no clear cause

• A constant sense of worry or dread

You might feel disconnected from life—and from yourself.

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How Clinical Hypnotherapy Treats Depression

Hypnotherapy connects with the subconscious mind—which makes up around 90% of your mental activity—rather than the 10% of the conscious mind alone.

This holistic approach treats the whole person, not just the symptoms.

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Hypnotherapy can help you:

• Identify and release unresolved emotions: such as anger, guilt, regret, resentment, blame, jealousy, or fear

• Process ‘unfinished business’ from past trauma

• Clear stored emotional energy from both the mind and body

• Break the cycle of self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors

• Replace trauma and negativity with inner calm and positivity

By releasing trauma and addressing the root of the pain, hypnotherapy helps lift the weight of depression and allows you to begin living your life fully again.

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The Power of Hypnotic Suggestion

Once the emotional roots of depression have been addressed, hypnotic suggestion can help:

• Improve sleep quality and reduce restlessness

• Restore healthy energy levels and libido

• Ease chronic pain, headaches, or physical tension

• Increase motivation to exercise, eat well, and care for yourself

• Reprogram limiting beliefs into empowering choices

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Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy for Depression

This approach is personalised for your individual situation, but typically includes support to:

• Let sleep return naturally and make the bedroom a peaceful space

• Break the cycle of hopelessness and begin seeing a positive future

• Shift helplessness by building confidence and a sense of control

• Set healthy boundaries, reducing overwhelm and emotional burnout

• Transform guilt into liberation, helping you release unfair expectations

• Respond with empowerment, recognising that you have choices

• Restore joy, creating a more satisfying and meaningful life

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Important to Know:

• Anxiety and depression make up over 80% of all mental health or addiction disorders

• 1 in 4 adults suffers from anxiety or depression

• Fewer than 30% with anxiety disorders receive professional help

• Only 50% of those with major depression get the support they need

• Just 40% of people with chronic or mild depression (2+ years) seek help

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You don’t have to carry this alone.
Hypnotherapy offers a compassionate, evidence-informed path to healing—one that reaches the roots, not just the surface.