The Mickel Therapy Clinic, Auckland, Mickel Therapy - Effective Treatment for Anxiety and Depression
Effective Solutions for Depression
What is Depression?
In the mainsteam medical community, depression is catagorized as a 'mental' disorder experienced by all-encompassing low mood and loss of interest in normally enjoyable activities. Many people identify the feeling of being depressed as "feeling sad for no reason" or "having no motivation to do anything." Clinical depression is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has usually advanced to the point of being extremely disruptive to an individual's social functioning and daily living activities.
Clinical depression is a clinical diagnosis and may be different from the everyday meaning of "being depressed." One suffering from depression may feel tired, sad, irritable, lazy, unmotivated, and apathetic. Clinical depression is generally acknowledged to be more serious than normal depressed feelings and usually leads to constant negative thinking.
Depression from a Mickel Therapy perspective
Mickel Therapy takes a very different perspective from many modalities towards depression. Rather than seeing depression as a bad thing, whilst of course no-one wants to experience the overwhelming unhappiness of depression, Mickel Therapy understands that depression is the body's way of trying to get our attention.
From a Mickel Therapy perspective, depression is the DE-PRESSING of emotions, as a result of either unconsciously missing them or semi-consciously ignoring or overriding them. As a result of various life events, circumstances etc, we come to believe that we cannot feel emotions, and unconsciously train ourselves to ignore them. Because this is all happening unconsciously, we are not even aware we are doing this, but if continued, we will eventually feel the end-result: depression.
Another way of describing emotions would be 'energy in motion'. Or at least, that's what e-motions should be: in motion, moving, passing through. One of the laws of physics is that energy can never be destroyed, only transformed or moved. Every e-motion that you experience in your life from the moment you are born, and do not allow to move through your body, will be stored away in the cells.
The body can only take so much of this before the cells become saturated with e-motional energy. And at the point the body realizes it cannot take any more e-motional 'stuffing', it will de-press the e-motions even further to make room for more. This de-pressing of emotions is experienced as depression, with all its associated symptoms of deep unhappiness, mental foggyness and acute negative thinking.
Depression and Chemical Imbalance
If one understands what is really going on physiologically at a quantum level in the cells, one can understand the chemical changes that are taking place in those cells. Quantum theory explains that at a deep, microscopic level, (much smaller than atoms and molecules), all matter is energy with both wave and particle-like attributes.
The purpose of explaining this is so that you begin to understand that if you are filling your cells full of e-motions - which are a form of energy - the negative vibration of these emotions will at some point start to affect the functioning of the cells at an quantum level. If the cells are being affected at an energetic level, of course they will also be at every level. Hence, the chemical make-up of the cells will change, causing amongst other things a decrease in good-feeling hormones like seratonin and creating a chemical imbalance. Eventually, according to Dr Mickel, this will feed back to the hypothalamus, causing an imbalance he dubs 'hypothalamtis'.
How can Mickel Therapy help with depression?
From a Mickel Therapy perspective, depression is a cry for help from the body, asking for certain needs to be met. Obviously depressing e-motions does not work or we would feel better.
Mickel Therapy will help you uncover the underlying cause of your habit of de-pressing your e-motions, and give you the tools to coach yourself back to health. Once you free up your e-motional energy, your cells will re-balance and the hypothalamus will re-set itself*.
* Please note, if you are currently taking anti-depressants, we are not saying that it is wrong to be taking medication. There is a time and a place for medication as support to get you through. However, Mickel Therapy feels that on the whole medication is not dealing with the true cause of the problem, as the medication is only really dealing with the end-result: the symptoms.
Many clients come to Mickel Therapy on medication, and often find that as their body-mind starts to heal, they no longer have a need for anti-depressants. You will not however at any stage be told to stop your medication - that will be up to you and your doctor. What often happens is that as people get better, their body indicates it no longer needs it by 'forgetting to take it'.
Disclaimer
Please note that Mickel Therapy's hypothesis of 'Hypothalamtis' and success stories are based on recovery experienced by clients who have used the Mickel Therapy techniques. Whilst many client have recovered, as shown by client testimonials, the results have yet to be backed up by medical research. A clinical trial is currently underway, the results of which will be disseminated when the study is complete.