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Understanding Depression Summary

BELOW are the main topics we have covered in Understanding Depression, Section 2 of the Depression Learning Path. If you are not sure about any of them, you can check back now before progressing to Section 3, Treating Depression .

  • The amazing new link between dreaming and depression and how this shows us the way forward
  • Depression causes, and is caused by, particular thinking styles
  • How we 'add meaning' to things and why this is important for depression
  • How the Explanatory Style we use can most of bad events whilst discounting good ones
  • The importance of tolerating uncertainty
  • Why a realistic sense of control is key
  • How and to spot All or Nothing, or Black and White Thinking and why it is dangerous
  • The physical symptoms of depression and what causes them
  • The cycle of depression. How depression works (diagram)
 

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Mark Tyrrell
Mark Tyrrell
Roger Elliott
Roger Elliott

The Depression Learning Path was created by Mark Tyrrell and Roger Elliott of Uncommon Knowledge. Mark and Roger have also written and recorded over 800 hypnosis sessions at Hypnosis Downloads, the web's busiest hypnosis site where you can get a cutting-edge hypnosis session for almost any situation.

 
 
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