Depression
Do you have any of the following problems?
- Poor sleep patterns
- Anxiety and sometimes panic attacks
- Irritability, frustration, and unprovoked anger
- Social withdrawal: spending less time with family and friends
- Feelings of sadness and moodiness
- Low self-esteem
- Low libido
- Poor motivation, including loss of interest in pleasurable activities
- Irrational phobias
- Oversensitivity to minor criticism
- Increased physical health complaints like fatigue or pain
- Slowing down of thoughts and actions
If so, you could be suffering from depression which in turn can often lead to a need for comfort or escape. At times this can lead to a dependence on a range of things like cigarettes, alcohol and other addictive drugs, gambling, rich and sweet foods, etc.
Depression can be endogenous (having no apparent external cause) or reactive (reacting to external events). It can be clinical or non-clinical, and there are many degrees of depression, but the condition can always benefit from a combination of counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy and hypnosis.
Remember that change is possible. Depression has its roots in the past. The past is like the wake behind your boat. It tells you where you have been, but not where you are going. In depression, the steering wheel is locked at a full turn, so your boat goes round in a circle catching up with your wake (past), causing a downward spiral. It’s time to take control of your boat and steer it to where you want it to go. We make our own futures. We steer the boat!
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