The most effective approach to
dealing with chronic depression is to seek a
medical help and counseling simultaneously. Your physician will prescribe
something like Prosaic, Paxil, Lithium, St. John's Wart, and in some cases,
mood stabilizers like Neurontin or Risperdol.
Let's not get confused. There's
a down feeling everyone gets from time to time and you might say, "I feel
depressed," but you really mean "I feel down." Depression is
much more than an occasional bad hair day.
Here's a list of some of
the symptoms:
It's estimated that one in twenty
suffer from depression to various degrees. Remember though, the one suffering
from serious depression may not seem or feel down. Instead the symptoms may be outwardly
focused and manifest themselves as episodes of anger, extreme intolerance,
compulsive behavioral disorders. Inwardly focused, the immune system may be
compromised resulting in life threatening diseases. So it's not
uncommon for the individual suffering with depression to be treated for a
whole host of medical or psychological issues before some one takes note of
the list of basic symptoms listed in the linked site above.
There is good news and there is
bad news. The good news is that one who is willing to be honest with oneself
(not to declare yourself crazy) but simply to realize that your own
personality is in conflict (the good feeling is not to be trusted) can cut
through the shrouds of mechanisms that hide clinical depression. The bad news is that
until this is done, the mechanism simply becomes more enshrouded.
Let's be
honest. If you have chronic depression, it's unlikely that this or any program
will eliminate depression by itself and it's unlikely that any medicine or
supplement by itself will either. Yet with prescribed supplements or medicines
and this program* you may save months or years ineffective of therapy
(counseling) and thousands of dollars in freeing yourself of depression. The
key is to direct the counseling in the right direction.
Unfortunately most counseling is
rather nonspecific and you can literally waste years of your life in therapy. This
is the one program that is specifically orients you in the right direction. In
fact, you may use it to direct your counseling and when your therapist asks,
"what would you like to discuss in this session?" you'll have a
pertinent answer rather than talk about the first thing that comes to mind.
Effective depression treatment will be to guide the therapist from the issues
that surface from listening to this program.
Did you know that your attitudes
contribute to your state of mind?
It's
well known that your attitudes can make you happy, unhappy, upset, bored,
excited... And specifically, a conflict of these attitudes can result in
depression. That's right. One's inability to recognize these internal
conflicts, much less effectively deal with them leaves a sense of helplessness
and despair.
I'm not saying that getting rid of depression
is an easy task. It is a symptom of deeper conflicts within. And these
conflicts are rarely complicated. Getting rid of depression is as easy as it
is to:
1. identify the conflicts.
2. own up to them.
3. be honest with yourself about your feelings concerning the issue of
conflict.
This is the one hypnotic program
that will enable you to identify the conflicts and deal with them honestly.
That honesty will set you free. It's like this, if you find yourself in a pond
of dirty water and part of you believes it's beneficial for you to get out of
it (and it is), but part of you for some reason (superstition, child hood
rituals, beliefs adopted from others) tells you not to, then you're
immobilized and continued immobilization is "clinical depression". You are
literally depressed, i.e. like this thing holds you down and keeps you from
moving. You say, "that's silly, anyone knows to get out of dirty water no
matter what." Yet, there is some issue in your life that you are hung up
on. Just about anyone else that you talk to would look at it as though it was
the dirty water and can't understand why you just can't get yourself out of
it. And that could be for several reasons:
1. you didn't know that staying in it was a problem for you.
2. you've always been in it and change seems so hard for you.
3. fear that you might not be a good person if you stepped out of the dirty
water, i.e. someone close to you might get hurt.
The cassette: Side one of depression
treatment is about
identifying the conflicting attitudes and beliefs. And if you ever thought you
were your own worst enemy, you step beyond that limitation to become your own
best friend.
Side two is a hypnotic conflict resolution experience.
The cd: The cassette was
reedited and a short update track was added. Side one is the
reedited versions of tracks 2 thru 5. Side two contains tracks 6
and 7 (relaxation experience exercises w hypnotic suggestions.)
All in all, everyone is
different. One out of 30 people who listen to this Up From Depression program just once free
themselves of chronic depression as if by magic. With all that they've done, the
program is the catalyst that makes it all make sense. But don't expect it to
work that way for you. You may not be that far along the path or have been
going in the wrong direction and it may take a few weeks with a supportive
counselor to put it all together for you. Even though the basic program was
created in the 1980's it still is the most advanced and
effective thinking on the earth to deal with depression and
comes with a four month guarantee period.
The first time you use the program (for a week or so) you will
get your interpretation of the program--not what the program
really means. You may also get somewhat confused as it does
challenge you to look at possible conflicts within your own
belief system. It provides several case histories with which you
can relate.
Then
put the program away for a week or two before you use it the
second time. This time your interpretation may slightly
different and you'll think as you listen, "Ah ha, that's
what he meant." And then repeat this again--putting the
program away and using it again in a week or two. Each time you
do this, your "ah ha's" will double as you turn
the key to freedom from depression.
