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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

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First developed for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as treatment for a range of other mental health problems, especially for those characterized by overwhelming emotions. Research shows that DBT can improve your ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, you need to build skills in four key areas--distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

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The NLP Communication Model - A Good Starting Point For Depression Therapy

NLP is an art and a science. It is based on the idea that the sensory information around us is translated into thoughts and ideas, which affect our state, physiology and behaviour and therefore our results. Our words also affect our experience and the experience of others. NLP teaches us how to use communication more effectively. NLP also tells us that we code or represent information to ourselves in certain ways. How we do code information varies between events we perceive as positive and negative. NLP teaches specific strategies and techniques that we can learn in order to represent this information differently to produce better results. These strategies are used at my NLP, CBT and Hypnotherapy practice in Hertfordshire.

The NLP communication model explains clearly how we process and use information and how this affects our state, physiology and behaviour. This is why it is a good starting point for therapy and I will always explain it to clients attending their first session of CBT, NLP or Hypnotherapy, in Hertfordshire. It is really important for clients to understand this model in order to be able to make changes to how they view their world.

What we know is that every second we are bombarded by sensory feedback (an estimated 2 million bits of information every second) from our 5 senses Visual (sight), Auditory (hearing), Kinaesthetic (feeling & touch), Olfactory (smelling) and Gustatory (tasting). In any given moment we are selective as to what information we pay attention to because of course we cannot possibly hope to process all of the information. Memory theorists suggest we can handle or remember about 7 new bits of information at once.

This means that we filter the 2 million bits of information into about 7 bits. The way we do this is by deleting, distorting or generalizing. Deletion means we do not attend to information that is not relevant in the moment, distortion means we adapt the information to make it fit with what we believe or are on the look-out for, generalization helps us to relate new information to what we already know. These three processes are crucial, as they prevent us from being overloaded with information and allow us to function.

However, what this also means is that we do not have the full picture because we have ignored or changed information during the filtering process. Using the 7 bits of information that have filtered we recreate the outside event inside our mind. This is called an internal representation. This mean that what we represent to ourselves inside our minds is never true to what is actually happening in the event.

Our internal representations are a re-presentation of the original information after filtering. Because the information we take in is via our 5 senses, our internal representations are made up of thoughts, feelings, sounds, pictures, smell and tastes. Importantly, the way we represent or code information in our internal representation affects how we feel, which in turn affects our physiology and behavior. What we know is that happy people tend to filter and represent information differently to depressed or anxious people. More importantly via cognitive therapy such as NLP or hypnotherapy, Herts, people experiencing mental distress can learn to filter in a way that allows refreshed perspectives and a different emotional experience.

Karen Hastings is a NHS experienced mental health occupational therapist, Master NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist. Karen uses hypnotherapy in Hertfordshire, along with cognitive therapy and NLP approaches. For more information about Hypnotherapy or NLP, Herts visit http://www.karenhastings.co.uk

Karen Hastings is a NHS experienced mental health occupational therapist, Master NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist. Karen uses hypnotherapy in Hertfordshire, along with cognitive therapy approaches. For more information about Hypnotherapy, Herts visit http://www.karenhastings.co.uk

Postpartum Depression Therapy

Postpartum depression was at one time one of the most untreated conditions in Canada. Therapists in Calgary have seen a startling rise in this condition in recent years. One of the main reasons for this increase in patients is due to people being more open about the condition, understanding the seriousness of it and media attention.

Postpartum depression is a serious condition that usually occurs shortly after childbirth. It used to be referred to as the "baby blues" but is now recognized as a condition that needs immediate attention. Postpartum depression, if left untreated, can escalate into postpartum psychosis. For most women it's a form of depression that last for months and needs to be treated professionally. If left untreated women can become anxious, lose weight, have sleeping problems and difficulty concentrating. Today, family doctors are more aware of this condition and look for it after a new baby is born.

There is help for this condition. With antidepressant medication and counseling a woman can quickly return to a normal life. The deeper the depression and other symptoms, the longer the counseling will take. Counselors who treat women will often include the woman's partner in the counseling sessions. Partners need to understand the condition so they too can provide support at home. Counselors treating this condition normally use cognitive behavioral therapy. This type of therapy can help patients to look at events in their life differently and change how they react to those events.

Some therapists will also give interpersonal counseling. This helps the patient to concentrate on areas in the relationship with the partner and the new addition to the household. The therapist helps the patient to set goals and look at relationships within the family unit. This type of therapy helps provide emotional support when the patient most needs it. The therapist also helps the patient with problem solving, so that problems do not become bigger than they really are. Bringing the partner into the session gives them a level of understanding that makes it easier for them to provide support in the home environment.

Medication, although not always needed, helps to quickly relieve the symptoms of postpartum depression. Medications are often used for people suffering severe depression. Coupled with counseling this condition can be treated very quickly. Medications are normally used for a period of 6 months. In the beginning it's used for the depression and in the last few months it's used to help prevent relapses. Then your doctor gradually removes the medication. This gradual removal from your system helps to prevent any side effects that could happen with abrupt removal.

It's important to remember that this condition is very treatable. With support at home, counseling and medication the new mother can return to a completely normal life in a short time frame. It's nothing to be ashamed of and nothing that you have control over. With proper treatment life will return to normal in a very short time and you can expect to live a happy life like all new mothers.

Dr. Dan McKinnon is is a registered psychologist and organizational development consultant for entrepreneurs, managers, organizational leaders and executives. If want more information about counselling Calgary, visit his site at http://www.calgarypsychology.com

Is Depression Therapy Really That Easy?

There are various situations in life where an individual may have to go through the procedure of depression. Although the cause of depression varies from person to person, the main reason may be due to some personal problems which may be work related, relationship problems or due to family problems but personal and family problems mainly contribute to the build up of depression.

What does Depression cause?

For many, depression does not seem complex because they live with it. But depression causes problems in work, social life, family adjustment. If you suffer from depression then you must be well aware of the problems that you face, but it is not only you that suffer, but people around you suffer too because they care for you.

Types of Depression:

You may wonder how can there be different types of depression. The truth is that there are 5 types of depressions and the following section explains it further.

- Major Depression: This is the most serious type and the variety and number of symptoms are huge.

- Dysthymic Disorder: A depression that is generally moderate and has been present for nearly two years or at times longer.

- Unspecified Depression: This type exists in people who have depression that is quite serious in nature but not severe in nature.

- Adjustment Disorder Depression: A type of depression that occurs with people due to problems or due to a crisis in one's life.

- Bipolar Depression: People facing this type of depression may have low and high mood swings along with other symptoms.

If you suffer from depression, depression therapy will help you to combat it. You can do depression therapy on your own and the first thing you need to do is stop thinking negative. Negative thinking is the main reason for depression and it pulls any person back from achieving what they want to do. The following steps given below are useful when considering a good depression therapy:

1) In the initial stages set goals that are not tough for you by breaking them down to smaller ones and then accordingly proceed to fulfilling the goals.

2) Avoid staying alone and instead always try to have friends or relatives around so that you can enjoy every moment. By enjoying yourself you keep all problems away.

3) Avoid negative thinking whenever it comes to your mind, instead think the positive version of it and try and achieve that.

Although you can start and catalyze a depression therapy [http://www.theapexpractice.org/depression-therapy.php], getting help from a psychologist would speed up the healing process and also make it simpler for you.

There are various websites which you can search to get loads of information about depression therapy, its types and ways to implement to help people suffering from depression.

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Depression Treatment: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Or Transcranial Magnetic Therapy (TMS)?

Electroconvulsive Therapy. Two words that make up one complete and disturbingly descriptive sentence.

In a nutshell, ECT works by inducing a physical seizure. But, when compared to the emotional/Life Seizure induced by deep depression, ECT may be preferable.

ECT has had some remarkable successes but, like any other therapy, electroconvulsive therapy is not for everyone. And, ECT side effects are also a consideration because they can be disturbing.

Keeping in mind that ECT and TMS treatments use some form of electricity to stimulate the brain, there are very important differences between the two:

- Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock therapy, uses an electric shock to induce a seizure. TMS uses a magnetic field to induce a much smaller electric current in a specific part of the brain without causing seizure or loss of consciousness.

- In many cases, ECT has been very effective in treating severe depression. TMS is not so powerful but, concurrent treatments to TMS such as neuro-feedback and/or hypnosis may actually boost the healing power of TMS. For now, TMS is used to treat milder depression, and it can only be prescribed for patients who have failed to benefit from one, but not two or more, antidepressant treatments. This treatment restriction may change in the future however, a depression sufferer may still benefit from appropriately applied complimentary healing methods such as hypnotherapy or biofeedback.

- TMS is much safer than ECT. Unlike ECT, TMS does not require sedation and is administered on an outpatient basis. TMS patients can drive to and from treatments on their own.

- Electroshock therapy always causes temporary confusion. And it often causes temporary--but sometimes very disturbing--memory problems. Plus, it can have significant effects on the cardiovascular system which can be an issue for some patients. TMS causes none of these problems. Another way of seeing this is that TMS is virtually free of side effects.

A question that many of my patients have needed to answer before seeking help is, are they truly depressed or just going through a normal life sadness event?

For instance, someone once contacted me and, after telling me that they had just lost a loved one, they then asked: "Do I need anti-depressant therapy?"

They asked about antidepressant medication/psychological treatment because their feelings of sadness and loss were overwhelming and seemed to be out of control. And, they did indeed score "yes" on many depression symptoms (listed below.)

However, after speaking with them some more, I determined they did not fit a "depressed" diagnosis but, their levels of pain were such that they did need some support.

Wondering which might be best for them, I asked them how they felt about hypnosis and receiving a positive answer, I then invited them in for a hypnosis session to help them constructively deal with a very difficult issue.

NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) was also a good match for my patient and so I used some very effective NLP methods to help them to be able to better make it through some very difficult days.

Losing a loved one hurts beyond words and it is understandable to want to fade away or die to avoid the pain however, most people truly do not want to die; they just don't have the tools to keep moving on until the pain eventually fades.

With the above in mind, and, after over 20 years in the psychiatry field, it is my firm belief that if proven, complimentary methods such as neuro-feedback, NLP and hypnosis were employed at the onset of truly painful life events, then costly, disabling depression could be avoided.

In other words, those who have suffered terrible losses could be saved a lot of terrible emotional and financial cost such as alcoholism, unemployment and more.

How can someone avoid the emotional/financial bankrupting costs of depression? They can learn how to recognize if they are depressed. This goes for you tough guys (and gals) out there who think you don't need treatment (also known as healing from painful events.)

If you are in pain and you want to feel better and you are curious, check out the possible signs and symptoms of depression listed below.

Note that in general, the below potential depression symptoms have lasted at least two weeks and have filled a significant part of your days.

- Persistent sad mood with feelings of "I can't take it anymore - I just want to die."

- No patience. Not even for little things.

- Little or no interest in things that used to excite you, such as sex.

- Sleep problems. You know if you have them. Waking up often; trouble going back to sleep; racing heart when you wake up; huge heaviness in your stomach when you wake, etc.

- Eating disturbances; either suddenly becoming too much or too little.

- Inability to concentrate and/or sit quietly.

- Your thinking is "different" although you're not sure exactly how. Your body doesn't seem your own.

- Can't make up your mind; even about little things such as what to eat.

- No energy even after sleeping all night - even small tasks are really difficult and require a lot of effort.

- A deep feeling that you are worthless and/or guilty of being deeply inadequate.

- Memory problems that are not normal.

- Intrusive, uninvited thoughts of wanting to die... and agreeing with them.

- Making serious plans on how you are going to "resign from life."

Something that is important to remember is that even if one of the above signs and symptoms of depression is overwhelming, disabling or otherwise having a significant negative impact on your life, then get some help.

Depression can be overcome. There is a rainbow to your personal storm. I'm glad that you took time to read this article. Thank you.

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Cognitive behavioural therapy-a point of view

Background: Since the late 60s I've followed a progression of fashionable therapies and studied others back to the turn of the previous Century. I've seen little genuinely new. Mostly just repackaging under new authorship. Long before the term "CBT" became popularised psychologists were making full use of it but they simply talked of an "eclectic cognitive restructuring approach" or "behaviour modification techniques." Then there's the question of the effectiveness of one therapy compared to another. There seems to be no dearth of impressive looking research proving that each therapy is superior to each other! And note well: CBT is not really a single therapy or technique.

Katy Grazebrook & Anne Garland write: "Cognitive and behavioural psychotherapies are a range of therapies based on concepts and principles derived from psychological models of human emotion and behaviour. They include a wide range of treatment approaches for emotional disorders, along a continuum from structured individual psychotherapy to self-help material. Theoretical Perspective and Terminology Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is one of the major orientations of psychotherapy (Roth & Fonagy, 2005) and represents a unique category of psychological intervention because it derives from cognitive and behavioural psychological models of human behaviour that include for instance, theories of normal and abnormal development, and theories of emotion and psychopathology."

Wikipedia free dictionary: "Cognitive therapy or cognitive behavior therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, and other forms of mental disorder. It involves recognising unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. Its practitioners hold that typically clinical depression is associated with (although not necessarily caused by) negatively biased thinking and irrational thoughts. Cognitive therapy is often used in conjunction with mood stabilizing medications to treat bipolar disorder. Its application in treating schizophrenia along with medication and family therapy is recognized by the NICE guidelines (see below) within the British NHS. According to the U.S.-based National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists: "There are several approaches to cognitive-behavioral therapy, including Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Rational Behavior Therapy, Rational Living Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Dialectic Behavior Therapy."

The above "definitions" have the practical advantage that they don't really definine CBT; they don't tell us where it starts and ends. For example, there are published on the net results of comparative studies comparing CBT with a number of other therapies. One of those other therapies is "modelling" (I call it monkey-see-monkey do). But modelling would be considered by many therapists, certainly myself, to be ecompassed by CBT and not something to be compared with it. Modelling is how you learned your most vital skills, like driving a car and your most vital occupational skills. It's how your local brain surgeons, bakers, mechanics and airline pilots learned their skills and how the bird in your backyard learned to pluck a grub from under the tree bark. Modelling is so important that it could not be ignored by a therapist on the basis that it did not fit some purist definition of "CBT". But "modelling" is only one psychological phenomenon not encompassed by some definitions of CBT but which are too important to be ignored.

If I am right, and CBT as it is practiced is a mishmash of therapeutic approaches that have always been used in an eclectic approach to psychotherapy then one might wonder why there was any need to invent the term CBT? Well, for a start it justified a book and I suspect it helped American psychologists sell psychotherapy to their relatively new "managed health care" (insurance) system as being "evidence based therapy". It leans heavily on the conditioned reflex idea and has a "no-nonsense-let's-get-'em-back-to-work-at-minimal-cost" ring to it. (never mind about how they feel!)

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can be seen as a repackaging and franchising of a group of therapies dating from before the 60s, with some emphasis perhaps on Albert Ellis' ("A guide to rational living," Harper, 61) "rational emotive therapy" (RET) which shares many of the underlying tenets of Buddhism (without the Nirvana and reincarnation), and Donald Michaelbaum's ('70s) "self talk" therapy - (see also "What to say when you talk to yourself", Helmstetter, 1990) in which like Ellis' he holds that we create our own reality via the things we say to ourselves; and the various techniques of attention distraction and use of countervailing mental images as described under the name Neuro-linguistic programming, e.g. "Practical Magic", Stephen Lankton, (META publications 1980) & other books by Bandler & Grinder.

Arguably, other related ideas of the era encompassed by CBT can include Maxwell Maltz's "Psycho Cybernetics" (like a servo-mechanism, we automatically approach increasingly more accurate approximations of our persistent goals) and Tom Harris' "transactional analysis" (TA) which is a simple, pragmatic and non-mystical explanation of psychodynamics. It encourages insight into self and stresses the importance of "adult" rational responses. CBT is even consistent with some "existential" approaches, e.g. of Auschwitz survivor psychiatrist Victor Frankl ("Mans' search for meaning," 1970 & 80 Washington Squ Press) which can involve asking oneself what one would do with ones' life if one knew when one was going to die?

The "behaviour therapy" or "behaviour modification" aspect naturally makes use of the principles of classical and operant conditioning, i.e. associating one thing or behaviour with another - e.g. a reward, or an escape, i.e. the reinforcement. To be effective reinforcement requires motivation, a need or "drive state". Thus a response to the first thing becomes modified, or a style of behaviour becomes "reinforced" and therefore likely to reoccur in specific circumstances. Classical conditioning applies to the reinforcement of autonomic responses, and operant conditioning to reinforcing skeletal responses.

In practice, the "behaviour" part of CBT often involves using Wolpe's progressive desensitisation method (or a variation) which was originally based on the notion (partly false) that anxiety cannot exist in the presence of skeletal relaxation. This method involves a yoga style of progressive relaxation together with graded visualisations of the threatening situation. The client gets accustomed to visualising a low grade example of a threatening situation while staying relaxed, and when this becomes easy, moving on to a slightly more threatening visualisation. When this method is combined, in the later stages with real world exposure to graded examples of the threatening situation (preferably at first in the supportive presence of the therapist) it becomes a powerful treatment for phobias.

What is CBT used for?: Just about everything! The main things: panic, anxiety, depression, phobias, traumatic and other stress disorders, obsessional behaviour and relationship problems.

The procedure. A. In collaboration with the client, define the problem. If the problem is intermittent look for triggering or precipitating factors Try to formulate concrete behaviourally observable goals for therapy."How would your improved confidence actually show to others?" How could your improvement be measured? How will you really know you are "better"?

Lead the client to expect a favourable outcome. This is using suggestion. Doctor's words on medical matters, even their frowns, grimaces and "hmm hmms" have enormous suggestive power and can do both harm and good. Anxious patients are prone to misunderstand and put negative interpretations on what is said to them. Also they may hear only certain key words and fail to put them in the context of the other words which they might not "hear" or understand - i.e. they are "looking for trouble", jumping to the wrong conclusions or to use a term coined by Albert Ellis, "catastrophising".

B. Of course CBT requires all the normal forms of good practice in counselling technique best described elsewhere.

C. According to the exigencies presented by the client's problem and lifestyle, make use of any one or combination of the following:

1. Simple measures like practising slow diaphramatic breathing during panic attacks, getting sufficient excercise and giving attention to good nutrition and adequate social contact. Mental (cognitive) rehearsal: (a) Ask the client to divide a desirable response into a number of steps or stages. (b) Have the client imagine actually performing each desirable step leading to the complete satisfactory response. (c) Set a homework assignment of actually experimenting and practicing in "real world" some or all of the steps drawing upon the imaginary practice for confidence.

2. Client's journal: A diary can be divided into time slots, smaller than a day if necessary. Or the diary can focus on just the significant events. Some headings: (a)The time, (b)what happened, (c)how I actually behaved including what I said, and (d)what I felt. (e)What should have I done/will do next time? Over time the diary or journal can be a valuable learning tool and source of confidence and inspiration for mental rehearsal.

3. Modelling: This is what I call "monkey see monkey do." In its purist form it involves learning by observing and receiving encouragement and useful feedback from someone who is expert in the desired behaviour. Practice and competence banishes anxiety. This is how all vital skills are learned, from surgery and aviation to panel beating. I once sent a timid youth out night-clubbing with another young man who was expert at approaching strangers of the opposite sex, and totally devoid of social fear. Training videos can provide a useful and convenient form of modelling. For example there was a time when South Australia's Mental Health service's Cerema Clinic made use of videos modelling sexual behaviour for sex therapy. Videos on various topics can be helpful to corporate persons with anxieties related to their performances (e.g. speaking up at meetings, or speaking to high status persons - "executive phobia".). Modelling can involve joining a special interest training group, e.g. Toastmasters or the Penguins as part of the homework.

4. Relaxation techniques. These can involve the techniques commonly used with hypnotherapy. The relaxation procedure itself follows closely the format of yoga relaxation. Once a pleasant state of relaxation or trance like state is achieved systematic desentisation can be attempted and so too methods such as encouraging clients to construct or their own mental place of refuge to which they can retreat any time they choose for mental refreshment - it can be simply a room or a castle or whatever pleases the client. A variation or addition to this technique can be the invention by the client of a fictitious guru or teacher. Some religious people are already using this technique in the form of a belief in guardian angels. But literal belief is not necessary.

4. Systematic desensitisation: E.g. for a spider phobia. The patient is guided through a relaxation routine similar or identical to yoga relation and perhaps then asked to visualise a tiny little spider down the end of a long hall, so far away it is hard to see it. When the patient can visualise this without rising tension (patient can indicate tension by raising index finger) the image is made slightly more threatening. With spider phobias I make use of a children's book with the artists' friendly stylised pretty spiders being held up at a distance, and moving up to a documentary book with clear photography, the book eventually being held on lap by the client and browsed. Finally the client keeps and feeds a spider in a jar at home at the bedside, brings it to sessions and in my presence opens the jar and releases the spider. I always try to introduce real-world practice. I have spent nearly 2 hours riding up and down an elevator in Adelaide's David Jones store in Rundle Mall with an elderly lady clinging to my shirt. We were getting strange looks from the store detectives! She was after about 2 hours, able to do it alone while I had coffee in a totally different store 100 metres away.

5. Self talk: Get the patients to identify what they are saying to themselves during episodes of say anxiety or depression and to document the precipitating stimuli. This where the journal or diary mentioned above can be useful. Then the patients are asked to write a better script, more uplifting or productive things to say to themselves during such times. This is where Albert Ellis' (mentioned above) ideas can be useful. He points out we make ourselves miserable by catastrophising, and by expecting too much of the world. It is not reasonable to expect to be liked by everyone. A failed dinner party is a trivial matter not genuinely "ghastly", "horrible", or "terrible"! We should do what we can to make a bad situation better, but worrying beyond that is wasted emotional energy.

Does everyone agree CBT is a good thing? No. Arthur Janov of "The primal scream" fame (70s) saw these methods as a symptom of a useless, superficial "let's get ourselves together" approach that ignored the inner realities, the neurological concomitants of neurosis. Simon Sobo, in his Psychiatric Times article (July, 2001), "On the banality of positive thinking", sees CBT as a symptom of economic rationalism and the whole "cookie cutter" one treatment fits all approach to both psychological diagnosis and treatment. Again he argues that the patient's realities get ignored. But one does not have to totally discard all the concepts of analytical therapies. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater would be a big mistake. For example it would be a massive mistake to dismiss the importance of symbolism just because symbolism is a feature of Freudian and Jungian psychology. We are symbol using animals. These very words are symbols. The psychology of symbolism is not alien to stimulus-response psychology because it is precisely via the processes of reinforcement that things and events acquire their symbolic value. http://www.psychologynatural.com

If you look at books on CBT you will see that it is recommended that patients keep a journal with many headings. A great many of patients suffer depression. Depression patients lack energy and are procrastinators so about 30-40% of them never get as far as even buying a little book to write in. Others don't bother because they are quick to see that the CBT procedures or "homework" being recommended are irrelevant to their situation. For example some of my depression and panic patients are women who are trapped in a marriage with a husband they despise but at the same time are dependent on. There often seems to be a passive-aggressive lose-lose aspect to their behaviour as refusing to drive a car, or spending husband's entire pay packet or credit card limit on the "pokies" in hotel gaming rooms, or getting arrested for shoplifting.

I'm inclined to agree with Sobo. CBT has been packaged and marketed in a way to make it agreeable to the USA's managed health care system - and of course to health insurance systems generally. So we therapists go on doing what we've always done but with attention to the required nomenclatures and of course we try to bring in some positive results at the stipulated price. The bottom line is that unless our patients/clients have access to substantial health insurance benefits then all we have is a cottage beer money industry, which has been the case in Australia until November 2006.

Hypnotherapy for weight loss-no other therapy compares

Let us admit the. starting on a weight loss diet or a program is easy but to remain in the till completion is tough. The grounds for interruption are many, including lack of motivation, inefficiency diet plan or program, requires constant for food, unwillingness to make physical traningstimer, etc. More and more such people joining the bandwagon of ' frustrated ' weight watch Ngere, for whom nothing seems to provide the desired results. For those people who want to lose it be of medical or cosmetic reasons, hypnotherapy could lose weight be one of the most viable opportunities.

Hypnosis and more hypnotherapy specifically for weight loss understood very well not for many. Its effectiveness would therefore also seems unbelievable. The truth of the matter is that hypnotherapy, is an ancient science, practiced for several centuries as a treatment option for the management of several mental and physical suffering. Hypnotherapy is considered to be one of the best therapy options for treatment of pain Add, iction, insomnia, depression, fear panic attacks and more. The best news is that hypnotherapy, has been found to deliver exceptional results for weight loss.

The primary reason why hypnosis is effective for the treatment of such suffering is that most of them have their roots in the deep ruheder of mind, called sub-conscious. For example, a person can win the weight of a number of reasons including overspisning, lack of knowledge of proper food, poor lifestyle choices, some hidden way of thinking, and so on. There are no drugs or diet, which can reach such levels of mind to cure the condition hypnotherapy exception. Hypnotherapy for weight loss works by probing deep in mind to find the root of the problem. It has been seen that almost all our outward behaviors have their roots in mind and unless the thinking has changed no therapy ever to be successful in curing the condition.

Hypnotherapy lose weight can also free the mind of the more bad habits Add including iction, etc. When a person cannot control his eating habits or is simply not do any physical exercise, the problem is more with his mind than his body. If you are visiting a clinical hypnotiker, you can require 5 to 8 sessions after which you will experience weight loss, there is permanent. The reason for this miraculous success is that your mind is now free for fear more s, phobias and set of concepts. You can therefore easily accept positive proposals hypnotherapy from and take control of your weight problem.

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Light therapy can treat depression

Light therapy, depression can be processed by the bright light therapy, used to deal with the winter blues, can also be effective in treating symptoms of major depression among the elderly, says a new study.

Light therapy is often the protection of individuals with regard to seasonal affective disorders, also known as the shorter days of winter blues and caused by sun exposure is limited during the winter. Mild side effects associated with the processing, including nausea, headache, Irritability and eye strain.

A small clinical study suggested that, with bright light therapy, which includes the results of the time, and light box daily will benefit from the symptoms of depression in the elderly is comparable to that of the antidepressant drug that, when consumed.

34% compared to the approximately 58% of the treated individuals with light-therapy group showed improvement in symptoms, treatment, 3 weeks after the entry into force of the said Ritsaert Lieverse GGZ inGeest and Vu University Medical Center in Amsterdam.

In addition, more patients showed at least a 50% reduction in depression light therapy group scores.

Bright light can affect certain chemicals such as serotonin, depression of the participating major General Psychiatry published a study on the levels of the archives of the brain.

Netherlands-researchers suggested that the healthcare can be used for the elderly, which often cannot or do not want to take drugs in light therapy, an antidepressant treatment.

They added that, in certain eye diseases such as suffering, Glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy patients should be carried out in the bright light therapy.

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Cognitive behavioural therapy for attention deficit disorder-ADHD

For some people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication enough. Their ADHD is soft, they have their own mechanisms to survive or have ADHD has not left any emotional disturbances (or any combination of the three). However, many ADHDers take one form of therapy or in combination with medication or by itself.

Traditional psychoanalysis (think Freud and the patient on the couch and "How is your relationship with your mother") is not going to always be useful. In the end, ADHD is a disorder that is completely dry. Psychoanalysis would not be of any help to someone with ADHD, any more than it would be for someone with diabetes. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), but is very useful for people with ADHD.

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