New Report Cites Mindfulness as Alternative to Anti-Depressant Drugs

Here at Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic, we’re always happy to read reports that support the type of treatments that we offer.
This week, an article in the i newspaper cited a major study that found mindfulness works as well as anti-depressant drugs.
It is pleasing to note that the concept of mindfulness is becoming more mainstream and is at long last attracting the attention of the wider media – primarily because it is becoming better recognised as a powerful source of well-being in so many aspects of life.
The new study found that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) helped people just as much as commonly prescribed anti-depressant drugs and that there was no evidence of any harmful effects.
Professor Willem Kuyken, an Oxford University clinical psychologist and lead author of the research report published in the JAMA Psychiatry, said the new evidence was very heartening.
“It does clearly offer those with a substantial history of depression a new approach to learning skills to stay well in the long-term.”
The article also states that mindfulness has secured the backing of the NHS advisory body, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as well as the Mental Health Foundation research charity.
Here at Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic we welcome this wider acceptance of mindfulness because we know first-hand how effective such treatment is. Its effectiveness extends to dealing with all manner of conditions, including smoking, weight issues, stress, depression and phobias. This is because so many common conditions are rooted in the same source, namely anxiety.
And anxiety, it seems, is a growing problem in modern society – but a phenomenon that we at Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic want to help people overcome.