Jack Dee gives the impression sometimes of being of a gloomy kind of guy, but it's hard to know when the kidding stops and real Dee begins. Any Lead Balloon fans here?

So it was interesting this week to read that he keeps himself on an even keel by using hypnotherapy. Here's what Bryony Gordon said of him in the Daily Telegraph this week:

"(Dee) has suffered from depression, but he is terribly breezy about the subject when I bring it up today.

“I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long – I didn’t function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out. Plus I found another way…” He trails off. And that was? “Hypnotherapy.”

Hang on. Airy-fairy hypnotherapy? “It’s very good. I mean it’s only really talking. I always think of it as being a bit like a brain massage. It just sort of resets you. Sometimes you have to switch the computer on and turn it back off again."

That's a good image: hypnotherapy as a brain massage. And we all need a massage now and then, so why not give cognitive hypnotherapy a try and see how good it feels? Take a look at www.nickjenkinshypnotherapy.co.uk.

And here's the full Jack Dee interview: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/comedy/8466032/Jack-Dee-interview-The-little-ray-of-sleet-who-gives-way-to-a-smile.html.

Cognitive hypnotherapy... just what YOU need to keep laughing.