There are pills, pills, and more pills designed to help people with their depression. I’ve been on more anti-depressants than I care to remember. Another form of treating depression is seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist. I was seeing a psychologist for a number of years and one of the ways she was able to help me was by doing light hypnotism. I wasn’t completely under the control of hypnotism but I was in a very relaxed state of being.

She would guide me back through the years by asking me to remember specific events in each year. If I got stuck on a particular year, or if a traumatic experience popped up she would walk me through the memory and we would try and figure out what happened and what I was holding on to. I remember really enjoying laying on the couch in a relaxed state and listening to my breath as we talked about what I could do to let go of any negative emotions that surrounded the unhappy experiences that I had gone through in the past. I really think sitting down with someone helps you to release pent up emotions that you have been carrying around for so long.