Low Moods
When life feels grey and joyless, it can be had to imagine feeling any other way. Hypnotherapy can help you find your way back to yourself.
Effects of Low Mood
Restlessness
Trouble concentrating
Feeling annoyed or irritable
Feeling empty inside
Digestive problems
Lack of enthusiasm
Little pleasure or interest in things
Low libido
Feelings of guilt or shame
Feeling pessimistic
Thoughts that life isn't worth living
Overwhelming sadness
Disconnected from others
Insomnia or sleeping too much
Over-eating or losing appetite
Tearfulness
Loss of confidence
Neglecting self-care
Withdrawing from loved ones
Feeling invisible
Loss of sense of humour
Feeling overwhelmed by small tasks
Difficulty making decisions
Getting Help
When you're experiencing low mood, even getting up in the morning can feel like an enormous effort — and finding the motivation to do the things you used to enjoy can seem almost impossible.
It can feel as though nobody in the world truly understands what you're going through.
Seeing others out and laughing, apparently carefree, can leave you feeling isolated and disconnected — as though you're watching life through a window rather than living it.
Often there's a pattern of black and white thinking — a sense that everything is wrong, and always will be. It's important to know that this is the low mood talking, not your true nature.
Therapy can offer you something really valuable — a space to begin seeing things differently, and to rediscover a sense of hope.
Hypnotherapy works by gently shifting those thinking patterns, helping you to develop a more positive and resourceful outlook on life.
Results vary from person to person, and no guarantees regarding outcomes can be made by any therapist or medical practitioner.
When you Start to Feel Better
Refreshed and energised
Looking forward to the day ahead
Socialising again
A sense of connection
Renewed interest in things
Greater feelings of self-worth
Motivated
A new lease of life
Enthusiastic
Happier
Sleeping better
Moving more
Making plans
Accepting yourself
Enjoying the small things again
Feeling present and engaged
Reconnecting with people you love
Rediscovering your sense of humour
Looking forward to the future
Your story
Hypnotherapy For Low Mood
Despite all the advantages of modern life, low mood and depression are increasingly common experiences — and if you’re feeling this way, you are far from alone.
Many people visit their GP and find pharmaceutical support helpful, and there is absolutely no shame in that. Medication can take the edge off those heavy, difficult feelings. However, tablets address the symptoms rather than the underlying causes — and some people find they feel emotionally flat rather than truly better. Not low, but not themselves either.
Complementary therapy works gently alongside your medical care, and it’s always important to seek guidance from your GP before arranging your hypnotherapy appointment.
Sometimes low mood arrives suddenly — after a bereavement, a birth, a relationship change, or a big life transition like moving house or changing jobs. Even events we’d consider happy, like having a baby, can bring unexpected emotional challenges as we adapt to a new version of our lives.
Other times it creeps in slowly, quietly, until one day everything just feels unmanageable and you’re not quite sure when it all became so hard.
Perhaps you’ve tried medication and feel ready to explore something alongside it. Or perhaps you’ve chosen a completely drug-free path. Either way, hypnotherapy could be the next step toward feeling like yourself again.
How Hypnotherapy Can Help With Low Mood
Hypnotherapy can help by gently moving you away from that exhausting loop of negative thinking that low mood creates. Together we can explore how low mood affects your sleep — and why you can still feel utterly drained even after spending hours and hours in bed.
Low mood is always connected to other factors in your life, even if that isn’t obvious to you right now. We’ll work together to discover what changes might help you begin to rewrite your story.
It may bring you comfort to know that low mood doesn’t have to be a recurring feature of your life. When your thinking patterns begin to shift, you may find that this difficult chapter simply becomes a thing of the past.
Despite a great deal of research, scientists have never found a “depression gene” — which means that low mood is not hereditary. Just because someone in your family experienced depression doesn’t mean you will too. What it does mean is that you may have been influenced by that environment and absorbed some learned patterns of thinking and feeling.
And here is the really hopeful part — all behaviour is learned, which means it can also be unlearned. Hypnotherapy works to gently break that cycle of repetitive negative thinking, helping you to rediscover your natural ability to focus on the positive things in your life again.