Episode 159: You can overcome depression

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According to the W.H.O., depression affects about 5% of adults worldwide, or 280 million people, many of whom are women. Symptoms include feeling low and hopeless, guilty, irritable, unable to sleep and sometimes having thoughts about suicide. Depression can affect anyone as a single episode following a challenging time, or can be alternated to manic symptoms in bipolar disorders. We are going to talk only about recurrent depressive disorder, where at least two depressive episodes occur and the condition persists over time.

Despite the existence of many effective psychological and medical interventions, many people do not get treated for depression, and it is often found that medication is taken by some for many years, but the root cause of the issue is not lack of serotonin as we have been told for years. ‘There remains no clear evidence that serotonin levels or serotonin activity are responsible for depression, according to a major review of prior research led by UCL scientists. The new umbrella review – an overview of existing meta-analyses and systematic reviews – published in Molecular Psychiatry, suggests that depression is not likely caused by a chemical imbalance, and calls into question what antidepressants do. Most antidepressants are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which were originally said to work by correcting abnormally low serotonin levels. There is no other accepted pharmacological mechanism by which antidepressants affect the symptoms of depression. Many people take antidepressants because they have been led to believe their depression has a biochemical cause, but this new research suggests this belief is not grounded in evidence. (Link to study: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/no-evidence-depression-caused-low-serotonin-levels-finds-comprehensive-review)

Self-care plays an important role in managing symptoms of depression and promoting overall well-being: doing enjoyable activities, staying connected, exercise, avoiding alcohol and drugs, talking to someone.

In my interview with Chloe Jimenez Peters we will hear about her depression story, which started when she was just a teen. Over decades, Chloe went through medication, therapy and shifts in behaviour, and while at medical school she was taught that genetics and chemicals were the only culprits behind disease.

But her beliefs were to encounter the reality of the unconscious mind and how it shapes our mental health - even creating depression as a nervous system response to triggers such as trauma.

Chloe ended up retraining in RTT, becoming trauma-informed and working with depressed patients who had lost all hope.

With her 1 and 2 month programs, depressed clients were able redesign their life and exit the cocoon where they had sheltered for many years.

How did this happen? Using hypnosis in combination with NLP, coaching and CBT, which is part of the RTT training that both myself and Chloe have undertaken.

After clearing up old beliefs of not being good enough, and reprocessing the past, we can effectively move to the present, stop ruminating the past and see ourselves as the powerful, spiritual being we are - magnificent people with purpose and with all life ahead of us.

We hold within us the power to heal, the power to change behaviours we don’t like, the power to achieve success like we never dared to dream before.

Feel free to ask any questions to myself or to Chloe, by visiting

www.franzsidney.com

https://chloejimenezpeters.com

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