Depression occurs when your emotional system feels that it cannot cope (maybe it feels overloaded) and then turns down (depresses) your feelings to try to help you, but unfortunately it turns down the positive and negative feelings which can then give you a “what’s the use” attitude or maybe even worse. This can happen because of fears, pain, anxiety and hurt from the past or just at a time in your life when things got on top of you. It can also happen when you think about the future and (consciously or subconsciously) project the same kind of negative feelings into future events (causing further anxiety, fear, etc.).

It can affect you physically, causing problems such as eating disorders, sleep disturbance, a lowered sex drive, fatigue and anxiety, and it can also affect your ability to think clearly making it difficult to focus plus it could also stop you feeling joy in your life.

Once it starts it tends to fuel itself and then you could become caught in the cycle of depression causing further negative feelings to occur (which then can cause more depressive thoughts and feelings).

Using Hypnosis, NLP and EFT you could find that your depression changes in a relatively short period of time because one of the things that (over a few sessions) will help is when the negative feelings linked to your past memories are balanced to an appropriate level while the positive feelings on your good past memories are heightened.

I have many clients who at their first session just cannot believe that they have any good memories at all anywhere and are surprised that after coming to see me and listening to the CDs that I give to them that find positive memories.