Approximately one out of five people might suffer from depression at some point in their lives or so, clinical specialists say.
There are many events that might trigger depression.
Disappointments, upsetting news, divorce, a loss-it can be of someone important, a job, home-or any form of abuse that may lead someone to feel vulnerable and change one's outlook in life.
People normally cope up with a given amount of time and proper ways to deal with it.
But if the depression is drawn out and hinders one's ability to function, people tend to rely in a more clinical approach.
However, some cases are severe that even an arsenal of medications doesn't show any signs of improvement.
Thus, people were inclined to seek unconventional treatments.
Popular alternatives like the use of Hypnosis.
Despite the general consensus that hypnosis involves a shady old man with a pocket watch and controlling people's minds, it is actually practiced in clinical settings nowadays.
One might be downright skeptical to use this kind of method, but since depression is a mental condition, it is reasonable to par it with a technique that utilizes the mental capability of a person.
To begin with, hypnosis alters a person's consciousness into a trance-like state.
Consequently, the conscious mind is temporarily inhibited while the subconscious mind becomes alert.
The conscious mind is the logical, rational part of the brain and if it is active, it will ask critical questions and analyze situations which may worsen the condition of a person suffering from depression.
However, the subconscious mind is ruled over intuition and when it perceives a threat to a person's physical and emotional well-being, it conjures a protective feature to make an individual feel safe.
Thus, when a person is in a trance and the subconscious is active, it will comply with the suggestions that the therapist propose as long as it recognize that it is for the good of the person's emotional and physical state.
In essence, this method only works if the patient is willing and any misconceptions about hypnosis were dismissed.
Hypnosis doesn't involve taking over a person's mind to do the therapists bidding.
In fact, the patient is fully aware of his surroundings and this method only serves as a motivation to help a person to change his behaviour over something.
The readiness of the person is the key for this technique to have a productive effect to someone.
It also takes several sessions and in some cases, a person learns self-hypnosis to build up the results aside from the usual appointments from a therapist.
People might fear the unknown, but it doesn't mean that we should stop finding alternative cures altogether.
Sometimes, it doesn't really matter how it works and why it works.
The only thing that matters is that it works.