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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
I'm a certified hypnotherapist, although I actually practice self-hypnosis. (And hypo-certs are a joke anyway.)
There are a lot of amazing hypnotic treatment programs for phobias and non-physical addictions.
The plan for phobias is generally to regress one back to before whatever trauma caused the phobia, then step forward to figure out the root cause, and then address it.
Amazingly, some can actually be reasoned away or lessened, but most take deeper work.
Special note: I am not the guy to help with this. As I said above, my specialty is self-hypnosis.
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Only a joke away?
I met my wife at a hypnotherapy convention.
I told her -
"Save the last trance for me!"
In all seriousness though, self-hypnosis- learning deep relaxation techniques are tremendous ways to cope with any phobia, even without digging for a root cause which may identify a false one anyways.
Deep relaxation or meditation changes the body's chemistry in marvellous ways. (Laughter also pumps out those helping chemicals as well!)
But it has to be done on a daily basis, the same as any other exercise.
Undoubtedly meds like Ativan work. If one has to go on them, be sure to reduce the dosage over time and learn to deeply acquire the lost relaxation ability that we're born with.
