Depression

There is no one answer to this question. Some of my depressed clients are carrying a lifetime’s burden of trauma and sadness on their shoulders and they need help to release the past, in order to be happy in the present. Others have just got stuck in bad habits in their thinking patterns and body language that cause them to be stuck in a depression loop and they simply need to rewire these current patterns. Some are feeling disempowered by living in a current bad relationship or work setting and need to make some lifestyle changes. Resolving depression requires a tailored approach to suit each person’s situation.

• constantly feeling down or hopeless
• having little interest or pleasure in doing things you used to enjoy
• irritability or restlessness
• feeling tired all the time
• feelings of emptiness or loneliness
• no longer interested in favourite activities
• sleep problems – too much, or too little
• weight loss or gain
• low self-esteem
• problems with concentration
• reduced sex drive
• thinking about death a lot

If you recognize any or all of these signs, you should take action sooner rather than later. Depression is far easier to deal with before it gets serious.

I offer a course called The Switch which provides you with knowledge about how your mind and body work, which thinking and behaviour patterns you are doing that are exacerbating your low mood, which situations from your past might be causing your current depression feelings and which aspects of your lifestyle need to be changed to improve your wellbeing. For each of these categories, you learn techniques that you can use yourself to fix these patterns. I do not fix anybody – I teach you how to fix yourself. I have seen fantastic results forpeople who had spent many years on anti-depressant medication and still felt miserable most of the time. I recently ran into a client who had been depressed for years before she attended The Switch. She said that The Switch was the best three days of her whole life and had made it so easy for her to be happy now.