Depression and Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure, or CHF, is among the most common chronic diseases in America. Nearly five million individuals suffer from this disease, and 500,000 more develop CHF each year. This condition can be mild, or it can become quite severe and impair normal life.
People with CHF experience numerous changes from their usual daily activities. They have to take medicines to relieve fluid accumulation and to decrease the exertion of their heart muscle. Many of these result in anxiety and exhaustion. These drugs can also impair physical relationships with a spouse or significant other.
Another struggle that individuals with CHF encounter is the requirement for significant diet changes. Many have to quit eating beef, avoid meals high in fat or sodium, or limit the amount of liquids they drink each day. They are encouraged to lose weight and exercise to keep their bodies as fit as possible.
The truth is, however, persons with congestive heart failure do not have as much energy for physical activity as before. Instead, they have to watch while friends and family members play volleyball, run, or jog. This leads to isolation and inadequacy. Moreover, many people mourn losing of physical health and wellness.
Affects All Ages
The majority of people who encounter this and have not yet reached retirement age must also quit working. In addition to causing financial stress and depression, this can increase emotions of isolation and seclusion. They find themselves alone. Rather than of bantering with the colleague at the next desk, they stare at the television while their friends continue living.
At times, people take anti-depressant or anti-anxiety medicines to manage these issues. Others choose psychotherapy or group therapy to assist them with meeting belongingness needs and processing the grief created through their newly restricted lives.
A better method of managing this type of depression, however, has gained recent attention and achieved practically instant approval among clients who have trialed it. Additionally, unlike medicines or psychotherapy, this technique is very inexpensive. Clients are able to learn to use it without experiencing additional money stresses.
Depression and Hypnotherapy
This technique, which uses a combination of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), aids people to learn to relax and find peace and serenity in the midst of daily life. These techniques teach individuals to acknowledge the new restrictions in their lives while aiding them to go on living life as completely as possible. Even depression that results from medication can be painlessly treated with the proper application of the techniques utilized by hypnotherapy and NLP. Two of these strategies are anchoring and the Flash.
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy is typically called conversational hypnotherapy. It includes techniques for providing post-hypnotic ideas embedded in a discussion or figure of speech. The positive aspect of this technique is that it removes the resistance to directly suggested actions that is nearly always included in the use of more traditional styles of hypnotherapy.
Through anchoring, hypnotists and NLP Practitioners instruct people to focus on positive thoughts and memories in which they felt relaxed and in control. As the individual becomes engrossed in these memories, they are able to experience these emotions once more. The individual then creates a concrete anchor for these feelings by placing two fingers in contact with one another. The unconscious mind makes a connection between the physical touch of the two fingers, and the positive feelings. Afterward, upon encountering an anxiety-producing or depressing situation, an anchor is elicited by placing together the two fingers, evoking sensations of peacefulness and tranquility.
The Flash technique is also very helpful to individuals who are working to overcome depression. This approach programs the mind to automatically utilize those destructive thoughts that are causing anxiety and depression, as triggers for beneficial perspectives that stimulate relaxation and happiness. With practice, clients soon find themselves nearly unable to have negative thoughts!
Summary
People with congestive heart failure typically encounter depression because of grieving the decline of their physical health and well-being. Other factors that can help cause depression include medications and money worries. Both Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP provide excellent techniques for helping people to deal with depression without having to put forth enormous amounts of time and money.
Alan B. Densky, CH specializes in stress and depression related symptoms as a certified hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner. During his 30 year career he’s helped thousands of clients. He offers CDs for hypnotic therapy for depression. Visit his Neuro-VISION hypnotherapy site for the hypnosis article library, or watch his free video hypnosis collection.
