Depression explained

Depression– what is it?    Depression as I’m sure you  are well aware of  is broadly described  as severe despondency, dejection, feelings of hopelessness and low self worth often combined with apathy, and the inability to maintain interest in life or goals in general. Issues that commonly develop alongside are reliance on drugs or alcohol as coping tools increasing guilt and making relationships and family matters escalate from challenging to virtually impossible. Stress and pressure are not tolerated well and if life does not go to plan a depression sufferer will go deeper into depression further decreasing self worth.

” I never realized the pressure I was putting myself under, I had tried what I thought was everything and nothing had worked, to the point that I believed MY depression was unfixable, I learned that all I needed was the application of the right information, I will always be grateful.” Mark Heyburg, April  2011

Why aren’t  traditional methods fixing  depression?
Traditional therapies focus on managing the symptoms not finding the cause. Psychotherapy spends a lot of therapy time talking about how you feel as well as searching for individual triggers and the history of these triggers. Psychoanalysis spreads its talk therapy out, often over a number of years sometimes decades and relies heavily on medication to help manage the symptoms and other options are rarely explored leaving it up to the sufferer to find their own solution.

” I had done what was advised of me, to see my psych and take my pills, I had been doing this for 8 years , it had become my ritual it was like a holding pattern so that my depression didn’t get worse, I never imagined I could get rid of it, and that it would be so simple, words are not enough thank the entire Palladium team.”
Angela Martin, February 2011

Why Palladium Private does work for depression
Clients suffering from depression make up the largest group attending our programs.  Palladium Private’s approach to depression disorders is completely different to traditional methods that are low on long term results. Our unique solution has three major components:

• We only use Fountainhead Method ™, trained life coaches.  The Fountainhead Method®  developed here onsite is an educational technique that examines the way a human being suffering a stress based illness, such as depression or anxiety, is thinking and processing the events of their life. This is based on the core belief structures they mainly developed at an early age and how the processing of reality through these core belief structures or as we call them “lenses” causes unwanted behaviour and emotional symptoms. It unpacks where a person learnt their views on life as well as how they measure their self-worth. The information learnt in this process takes the sufferer’s incorrect or incomplete beliefs, which are based on misinterpretations of the past, and re-educates them to look at the same past experiences objectively and with the goal to understand, learn and grow from them which changes the underlying cause of their unwanted behaviour and emotions long term. The Fountainhead method is presently being used by 400 practitioners including psychologists and doctors throughout Australia.

• Journey Therapy supports it. Developed originally by American author Brandon bays similar to time line therapy but different in that the focuses is not only to identify your patterns of behavior and its origin-but to change the pattern then and there. Perhaps emotional clearing would be a simple way to express the process in which you are guided through. Your Journey Therapist will equip you with the tools to understand and release limitations. Be it anger, grief, anxiety, fear, or it could be as simple as a sense that there is something more you could be achieving for yourself and your life. No matter how deep the issue or how much you have struggled with it, there is always the possibility you can become powerful, free and fully self expressed. The purpose of Journey therapy is to  get to the  true root or cause of the issue, finding resolve and allowing you to live your life fully-free and empowered to create new possibilities.Many people say this was one of  the best parts of their program.

• It is underpinned by Mindfulness training which has existed for millennia but has only been explained scientifically in the last twenty years.  “Mindfulness produces positive effects on psychological well-being that extend beyond the time the individual is practicing it. Over the last three decades mindfulness  practices have been increasingly incorporated into programs, to take advantage of these benefits. A large body of research has established the effectiveness of these mindfulness-based interventions in reducing symptoms of a number of disorders, including anxiety , depression , substance abuse , eating disorders , and chronic pain , as well as improving well-being and quality of life. Mindfulness  involves the development of awareness of present-moment experience with a compassionate, non- judgmental stance .It has been suggested that this process is associated with a perceptual shift, in which one’s thoughts and feelings are recognized as events occurring in the broader field of awareness”    Harvard Medical school Boston MA 2010

“Depression-anxiety, anxiety depression. It did not understand the link. NOW I understand the lesson. The world should know about these programs. Thanks Greg, you saved my life”. Gordon Hyall, Nov 2009

What the experts say
The Anti Depression Association of Australia (ADAA); recently interviewed author Michelle Mark who confirms this approach to treatment for depression: “When you need help with depression, the real work needed to reduce it for the long term is not done by changing how you feel. This is a temporary solution at best. being aware of and then changing the root cause of that emotional response does the real work. Those who suffer from depression must look beyond the effects, and go back to the cause it’s not about what happens to you in life, it’s about how you react to it. The Fountainhead Method™ shows you how to do this”.

“Emotions are signposts, like physical pain telling you there is something wrong. This is what I found out within days of arriving at Palladium and it blew my mind. Why don’t they teach this in schools! A whole generation could be depression and anxiety free. Palladium private is so far ahead of anything else out there, and I have tried them all. South Pacific, Sanctuary – you name it. Thanks for giving me my life back.
Anthony Ondine, Jan 2011

Please go to the  Program and pricing  page or feel free to contact Greg Doney the director of admissions on 07 5499 9244  as he will be happy to discuss the program with you.