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Depression and Hypnotherapy – Living Life to the Fullest

Depression is the most common mental health condition across the world, followed by anxiety. Almost 20% of people aged 16 and over in the UK have showed symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to the Mental Health Foundation. But what is depression? And how can Piece of Mind Hypnotherapy rid you of your depressive symptoms? Read on to discover how hypnotherapy can see you living the life you dream of.

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What is depression?

Sounds obvious, right? So often, depression is underestimated but having depression isn’t the same as feeling down in the dumps for a couple of days. Depression is a low mood that lasts for a long time or keeps returning and is catagorised as having a significant impact on everyday life. Symptoms of depression vary from person to person but can include both psychological and physical symptoms, including:

  • Continual sadness or low mood
  • Feelings of being hopeless or helpless
  • Having low self-esteem
  • Feeling anxious and worried
  • Being intolerant or irritable
  • Having no motivation, even towards things you used to enjoy
  • Experiencing suicidal thoughts or thoughts of harming yourself
  • Changes in appetite
  • Lack of energy
  • Disturbed sleep/need to sleep too much
  • Moving and speaking more slowly
  • Changes in sex drive
  • Unexplained aches and pains

Doctors tend to describe depression by severity: Mild depression (some impact on life); Moderate depression (significant impact on life); Severe depression (making it almost impossible to live life).

What causes depression?

Depression can occur for a wide range of reasons with a variety of triggers which are as individual as the person living with the condition. Stressful life events (like losing a loved one, a breakdown of a relationship, money problems and ongoing health issues) may cause depression alone or causes may build up until depression is triggered by feelings of overwhelm. A “downward spiral” is often described by sufferers and their doctors – You may suffer a bereavement and during your period of grief, you may struggle to keep up with work commitments, adding additional stress. These events added together can trigger your depression.

Some personalities are more vulnerable to depression, for example, a person with low self-esteem may be more likely to develop feelings of hopelessness and low mood. Family history is also considered to affect whether a person will develop depression. Giving birth, loneliness, alcohol/drug use or life-threatening illness are all known to trigger depression, although that’s not to say that everyone facing these experiences will become depressed.

How is depression diagnosed? 

You, or those around you, are likely to have suspicions that you’re suffering from depression before you get an official diagnosis. If you’re unsure if what you’re feeling is depression, you may like to take a self-assessment, which is available on the NHS website. Self-assessment should never replace a consultation with your GP, however. The only way to receive an official diagnosis of depression is to discuss your symptoms with a doctor.

How is depression treated?

Typically, your GP will follow a treatment route whereby self-help is recommended initially, and counselling or CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) are offered if no improvements are seen. The waiting list for talking therapy through the NHS can be a long one, however, and many depression sufferers find the wait for treatment to be anxiety-inducing. Your GP may also offer you anti-depressants, although the side effects can be too much to handle for some. In severe cases that don’t respond to combinations of antidepressant medication, brain stimulation techniques (such as electroconvulsive therapy or ECT) may be used.

But, how does hypnotherapy treat depression?

Hypnotherapy offers depression sufferers the opportunity to rid themselves of their plaguing symptoms. Hypnotherapy works because it targets the underlying cause of the depression, as opposed to just treating the symptoms like medication does. By identifying the depressive trigger, hypnotherapy works to support your brain to move on from the “unfinished business” that has seen you develop negative thoughts and behaviour patterns in order to cope. You can safely and calmly reevaluate your traumatic memories or negative emotions, allowing you to release the unwanted depression that has been triggered.

During hypnotherapy, in a deeply relaxed state, positive suggestions can be made to replace the negative thought processes that have taken root in your brain. These positive suggestions can help to improve your sleep patterns, lessen your desire to smoke or drink and help you to feel like the you you’ve been missing.

To learn more about hypnotherapy, discover the most common myths and misconceptions of the relaxing, safe and effective depression treatment.

About Piece of Mind Hypnotherapy

Piece of Mind Hypnotherapy is owned and managed by me, Andy Griffiths. Having suffered from mental illness many years ago, I know the feelings of utter despair fellow sufferers live with. My behaviours and thoughts that occurred as a result of mental illness made me feel like I was just surviving, not living a life I craved. Hypnotherapy gave me my life back – This is why I created Piece of Mind Hypnotherapy, to help others like me.

Seeing the impact my therapy made on clients encouraged me to develop Piece of Mind Hypnotherapy Training, where my accredited and approved diploma and certificates in Hypnotherapy have been awarded to over 150 students. Through therapy and training, I aim to support those suffering with mental illness to live the life they have dreamt of, free from the constraints of their conditions.

Piece of Mind Hypnotherapy is based in Glasgow and I work from my bespoke therapy and training centre as well as offering hypnotherapy and anxiety therapies online to clients across the globe.

Contact Me

Contact Piece of Mind today: 

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hello@piece-of-mind.co.uk

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0141 340 9870

7.Drink responsibly 

Whether your festive beverage is a Baileys or a Buck’s Fizz, try to drink responsibly. Getting drunk might be fun, but the morning after never is. Avoid the hangover (and the family arguments about who ate the last Malteser Celebration) to avoid unnecessary anxieties.

8.Live in the moment and ENJOY YOURSELF

Anxiety can take away all feelings of joy. It’s easier said than done, but try to enjoy yourself whenever you can and remember… It’ll all be over soon!

Christmas might be the most wonderful time of the year for some, but living with anxiety only becomes harder when you’re faced with festive pressures. At Piece of Mind, our diaries remain open throughout December, with hypnotherapy available to help you live the anxiety-free life you deserve and not only for Christmas, but for the rest of your life.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year


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Ian Young

Ian Young

Training & Development

Tagline: Grounded, real and genuinely hard to forget.

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Ian is an experienced therapist whose work spans trauma, addiction, anxiety and recovery. His approach is shaped as much by lived experience as by professional training and that combination makes him exceptionally relatable to the people he works with.

People who’ve worked with Ian consistently say the same thing — he gets it in a way that goes beyond what most trainers can offer. He doesn’t just understand the subject. He understands people.

Within Piece of Mind Training, Ian also plays a key role in business and strategic development, bringing a practical, grounded perspective to how the organisation grows and evolves.

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David Gowans

Training & Development

Tagline: He’s seen mental health crisis at its most acute. And he knows what actually helps.

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David’s background is probably unlike anyone else you’ll meet in a mental health training room.

Twenty-three years on the frontline of emergency services first as a police officer, now as an HCPC-registered practising paramedic. He hasn’t studied stress, trauma and burnout from a distance. He’s carried them, in uniform, responding to people at the absolute worst moments of their lives. He understands the culture that makes asking for help feel like the hardest thing in the world because he’s lived inside that culture.

That frontline experience sits alongside his clinical practice as a qualified hypnotherapist and accredited EFT practitioner. David works with real people navigating real challenges every single week. What he brings to Piece of Mind Training isn’t theoretical. It’s current, grounded and built entirely from the inside out.

As part of the team, David delivers training, practises as a therapist and plays a key role in the development and direction of the organisation making sure that everything Piece of Mind produces is professionally rigorous and genuinely human.

David is responsible for development and ensures that Piece of Mind Training programmes are grounded in real-world application. Not what the textbook says should happen. What actually works when it matters.

Iona

Iona Russell

Growth & Partnerships

Tagline: She’s written the book. Literally.

Iona has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of human potential and real-world impact — across psychology, coaching, education, broadcasting, the charitable sector and social policy, in both the UK and the USA.

She is a Master Positive Psychology Coach and twice bestselling author who has supported hundreds of people through coaching qualifications and worked alongside some of the most respected names in positive psychology and personal development. As a keynote speaker and leadership advisor, she helps organisations rethink what success and human flourishing actually look like.

But what drives Iona’s commitment to mental health work goes deeper than her professional background. She lost her brother to suicide. That experience — and everything it taught her about the gap between what people are going through and the support available to them — shapes everything she brings to Piece of Mind Training.

At Piece of Mind, Iona leads our partnerships, builds community impact and drives our growth across Scotland and beyond. She brings commercial insight, deep human understanding and a personal reason for being here that no CV can fully capture.

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Ann Stewart

Head of Training

Tagline: The person who makes sure the learning delivers every time.

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Ann has spent her career helping people make sense of the things that are weighing on them and finding a way forward when everything feels tough.

Her background is genuinely rare. A qualified teacher, certified hypnotherapist, coach and First Aid for Mental Health practitioner, Ann brings together an understanding of how people learn with a deep, practical knowledge of how people struggle. She still works directly with adults and young people every week supporting those experiencing anxiety, low confidence, emotional distress and the kind of quiet difficulties that don’t always have a name but make everyday life feel impossibly hard.

As a trainer, Ann knows that the best mental health training doesn’t just inform people, it changes how they see themselves and the people around them. She brings that belief into every session she delivers, whether she’s working with a room full of HR professionals or a team who’ve never talked about mental health at work before.

As a therapist, trainer, teacher and mum of three, Ann understands that most people are dealing with far more than anyone around them realises. That understanding is the foundation of everything she does.

At Piece of Mind Training, Ann leads on training quality and consistency, making sure that what we promise is what every learner experiences, every time.

Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths

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Tagline: The man who built this because he needed it himself.

Qualifications include:

Clinical Hypnotherapy

NLP

Psychotherapy

CBT Coaching

Trauma-Informed Practice.

Andy is a practising therapist, clinical hypnotherapist and the founder of Piece of Mind Training. He’s spent over a decade working with clients across anxiety, trauma, panic disorder and complex mental health presentations not as a theorist, but as someone who has experienced many of these challenges himself.

His personal journey through mental health struggles, panic disorder and years of pretending everything was fine is the reason Piece of Mind Training exists. He built what he wished had existed when he needed it most.

As a trainer, Andy is known for his directness, his warmth and his ability to make people feel genuinely seen. He doesn’t stand behind a slide deck and talk at people. He brings the subject into the room.

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