Danielle wakes up in the morning and doesn’t want to get out of bed. She is wide awake but didn’t get much sleep; and has no motivation to start her day. Reluctantly she gets up, showers, and gets ready for work. She skips breakfast as she has no appetite and heads into work. On the way to her job she has trouble concentrating on her driving; instead she contemplates how useless she feels at work and how helpless she is to change the situation. Once at work she can’t remember what meetings she needed to attend, and forgets about an important appointment with the general manager. To most, this sounds like a bad day. But to her this is just the norm of her everyday life. Danielle is displaying many of the symptoms associated with clinical depression. She is diagnosed with the mental illness and prescribed pharmaceuticals, but when she does remember to take her medicine it seems to cause more problems than it fixes with the multitude of side effects. She wants a different solution or approach to manage her problem. Here is where hypnosis may come into play as a viable option.
Danielle’s story is not out of the ordinary. In fact, an estimated one in ten Americans suffers from clinical depression (Unhappiness by the Numbers: 2012 Depression Statistics, 2012). Someone who has clinical depression may be engulfed in feelings of helplessness, negative expectations, and low self-efficacy. Medications may help by balancing chemicals in your brain, but sometimes the issue is beyond that and it may be more beneficial for the patient to receive some kind of therapy. “Depression is about much more than "bad chemistry"--and it's contagious” (Yapko, 2010). Hypnotherapy may be a helpful alternative or can be used in conjunction wi...
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All things considered, Hypnotherapy is an effective means of treating clinical depression. Hypnotherapy may help change expectations through supportive guidance. It may also reduce feelings of helplessness by instilling motivation and faith in oneself. It helps people realize their potential by helping them gain self-esteem and confidence. And lastly, it may be used in conjunction with medications and other forms of treatment if needed. After Danielle stays committed to her hypnotherapy appointments she is feeling dramatic change in her life. She has a new sense of confidence, self-efficacy, and resilience. Hypnotherapy is effective in treating clinical depression, changing expectations, countering feelings of helplessness, instilling better coping skills, increasing self-efficacy, and is a great compliment to other forms of treatment.
Hypnosis has many practical uses, and these days it is becoming increasingly popular as a method of behavior modification. The Internet contains many advertisements for self-help programs that use hypnosis to reduce stress, quit smoking, or lose weight. In the area of hypnosis and weight loss, there are many web sites for both products and services for sale that promise to help anyone lose weight. Hypnosis uses suggestions to change a person's behavior and eating habits in order to facilitate weight loss. What are the expected outcomes? There are many different outcomes expected from this type of hypnotic treatment. Most vendors of hypnosis specify that it's purpose is not only lose weight but to also maintain that ideal weight. Some companies also promise that hypnosis will stop cravings for unhealthy foods, such as foods high in salt or fat and also fried foods. http://www.clauser.com/announce3.html Through hypnotic suggestion, the person will learn how to eat healthy and may also become physically fit. Basically, the person becomes subconsciously motivated to eat better food and to become physically active. http://www.biocentrix.com/hypnosis/wghtplan.htm How Does Hypnosis work? There are many different forms of hypnosis used to control weight. A very popular method is the use of hypnotizing tapes. DreamLab, a web site selling these tapes, describes the procedure, and advises customers to start the tape when they go to bed. They claim that the tape contains both music and instructions that "lull you into the right mood." http://www.dream-lab.com/noweight.html While a person is in this mood, they are open to changes in their attitudes about eating habits and exercise through the suggestion of dream i...
The goal of cognitive-behavioral treatment is to adapt the patient’s thoughts; as Riley is thinking of how she is failing to deal with the present situation she is in, this treatment will help her change this thinking. In this treatment, Riley’s patterns of thinking would be recognized over a series of appointments, and the clinician would then identify different ways of viewing the same situations Riley has been dealing with, making them not as dysfunctional for her. As well as cognitive-behavioral treatment, physical activity can also combat depression because it releases endorphins; this treatment would be accessible to Riley, and it is something that can be self-initiated as well as encouraged by her parents. These treatments would be ideal for Riley as they encourage her to better her illness without antidepressants since she is so
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Hypnosis is a state of mind that is induced by a hypnotist. This state of mind is a process that must be done carefully in order to keep your patient relaxed. The patient remains conscious throughout the entire process, but is not affected by outside distractions. This allows the subject to be open about a specific problem they are having difficulty with. For example, if a patient was having a problem with addiction, this would be the topic of discussion. The hypnotist would carefully ask questions and get the patient to confront their problems head on. This would make the patient much more aware of their problem and the effect it has on their life. Although this process seems easy, a hypnotist must be careful how they work the discussion.
There is a story around that time about an old man on his death bed giving his family advice, and it helped me see that my worst fears probably wouldn't come true in regards to my husband. From that point, I was able to listen to the hypnosis session with a wide open mind and allow some new thoughts and beliefs come into my mind. And, at the end of it, I felt more hopeful and alive.
Depression is a mental illness, which affects millions of Americans each year. Currently there are many prescription drugs, called anti-depressants that have been proven to successfully treat it. The causes of depression are somewhat of a medical enigma, however, it is known that depression is associated with a change in the brains chemistry involving the function of neurotransmitters (Reichert). This chemical change occurs in healthy brain’s, which experience sadness, but ends after the unpleasant stimulus is removed. In people suffering from depression this chemical change does not correspond to any particular stimulus. Symptoms of depression are often incapacitating and include severe and extended sadness, feelings of worthlessness, feelings of emptiness, irritability and anxiety (Reichert, Spake).
Hypnosis has been used for a wide range of problems from, opting to remove some symptoms of certain mental diseases, reducing stress and psychological traumas, and treating phobias, to aiming to cause weight loss and cure one from illness and diseases (Keller, 2008). Although hypnosis in general, is considered to be safe and totally harmless when controlled by a physician, the present era has attached danger to it, in that it creates delusions through other people’s lives. According to MacKenzie (2011), “Hypnosis has been perceived as clouding people’s imaginations while they undergo relaxation, both internally and externally. While under hypnosis we experience a heightened sense of imagination and are open to suggestions and changes.” Coker (2010) found Pseudoscience to encourage people to believe anything they want. “It supplies specious "arguments" for fooling yourself into thinking that any and all beliefs are equally valid...
Hypnosis is a method to deeply relax an individual, inducing a dream-like state in order to treat a specific psychological, emotional or medical disorder. Practised in a few different variants over thousands of years, hypnotherapy was not considered to be a valid medical treatment until recently. But it's mysterious healing powers are still a bit controversial, as society considers hypnosis to be a kind of a parlour trick that serves mostly for fun and entertainment of the crowd.
Internet advertisers who claim weight loss will occur following a single hypnotic session, especially a group hypnotic session, are frauds selling dreams to desperate customers. Allison and Faith (1996) underscore that "there is currently no panacea for the treatment of obesity and hypnosis is no exception". Treatment using hypnosis then is not a quick and easy way out of weight troubles. In order to achieve any benefits from its use, hypnosis must be practiced on a regular basis for a significant period of
Treatment for depression includes medicine, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive therapy. If someone is thinking about suicide or is very depressed and cannot function, they need to be admitted into a hospital. Antidepressants are medicines used to treat depression. They help bring the chemicals in the brain to the normal level and relieve syndromes. If the patient feels as though the medication isn’t working, their doctor should be called. However, if you feel so, you shouldn’t change them on your own without the permission of the doctor. Psychotherapy is to help you understand why you’re feeling the way you are.
Hypnosis is not something often talked about socially or at all until recently, this is something that has happened over the years.Whether this is acknowledged or not does not mean this is not happening. Many murders have been committed under hypnosis as well as other crimes. Although this method is generally made to help others this may not be what needs to be used, because there are so many negative effects. Hopefully, after this speech, I can help you guys understand that hypnosis is never ok.
Due to the speculation associated with hypnosis, a great debate has arose between many regarding hypnosis being a legitimate method of dealing with addiction. This topic has been greatly discussed throughout the scientific community, providing me with masses of research material. Although the number of individuals dealing with addictions has significantly increased over the last decade, the success rates of those who seek help with their addiction through hypnosis has rose prominently since 2003. Over the past 12 years, extensive research has been conducted around this topic, which has led me to the conclusion that hypnosis is in fact a legitimate method of dealing with addiction. The reasons and substantiation for this are explained in this
What is hypnosis? Many doctors have tried to come up with a definition but they have yet to suffice everyone. There is multiple definitions and none seem to be enough. The most universal definition of hypnosis is “ the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction.” Some may believe that hypnosis is fake and is just what you would see on tv. People being hypnotized to do mediocre stuff like acting like an animal or make funny noises. This is totally wrong and has damaged the public image of hypnosis. Hypnosis is recognized as a valid medical procedure by the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association. There
Let’s say you have some sort of problem or bad habit (as do most people I know) and you really want to overcome it. Maybe you are addicted to smoking, but no matter what you do, you just can’t resist the urge to go crawling back to your cigarettes and take another smoke. Finally, you see an ad in the paper for a hypnotist that says he (or she, of course) can help break addictions with a little hypnotic suggestion, and you decide that you might as well give it a try. You walk into small, quiet room and lay down on a comfortable sofa across from the hypnotist. He begins to calmly tell you to relax all parts of your body, and tells you to shut your eyes. “You are getting very sleepy.”