by Faolan Johanns

Created on: January 16, 2008

This issue is based on a broad audience, it's too generally focused to have a clearly defined yes/no answer that deduces whether hypnosis may or may not relieve depression.

Let's start off with depression:

Depression itself is defined as a feeling of sadness, bluesy, or a low mood, usually in emotional reaction to an event in one's life.

people who seem to have this state of being for a period of two weeks or more and as a result, the state of mind disrupts life, are considered to have what's known as clinical depression, which is what this topic focuses on.

Depression, is entirely based on the individual, some people use drugs to find relief, and some dig themselves out of where they were by hand, perhaps using methods such as hypnosis for temporary relief, or a tool conducive to recovery, if not the actualizing ingredient to recovery.

Now, let's take a look at hypnotism:

Hypnosis is defined as being in a state similar to sleep, a trance state, where the individual leaves themselves open to suggestion.

Starting from scratch, the individual must be susceptible to being hypnotized, otherwise it will not work to begin with, much less on the long run.

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and finally, let's put the two together,

can hypnosis relieve depression? for some few individuals it might be a likely tool used to help, but not an option for literal relief, no.

is it a likely, feasible, and reliable source of treatment for depression? - again no, hypnosis works on a limited crowd in the first place, in all likelihood only a fraction of even those would gain any sort of positive feedback.

depression is of varying degree to the individual, and it is never wholly curable by one said thing or another, even though antidepressants take the feeling away, they don't fix the problem, that's up to the person alone.

Yes, I have depression, no, I do not take drugs, the most recovery-stimulating things for myself, more so than drugs when i used them, have been daily exercise and keeping a journal. However, even what I say there may work for some, likely much more than hypnotism can account for, but not all, and i would anticipate far less than most.

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