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Newsgroups: alt.support.dissociation [More Headers] Has anyone had experience good or bad with this for internal communication? Margaret Hi Margaret, I started hypnosis in 1988 with someone who was very experienced with hypnosis and mp. At that time I was "presenting" with multiple personalities. Memories were happening, nightmares, depression and a lot of the stuff of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. We worked together for 7 years, onlyl the first couple really focused very much on hypnosis. My memories were graphic and real, although there were still huge memory gaps in my life, some spanning several years. I benefited from hypnosis in that I was able to start reconnecting pieces of my life into a winel whole picture. Much of my life was fragmented, and I lived in a fantasy story of how I grew up. Hypnosis also helped to relax me. I trusted my therapist and he proved to be very trustworthy. The part that I’m confused, a little, about today is that he never saw the mp stuff, even though I asked him several times. I don’t know what that was about, why he didn’t see it. A year ago, 1/2 year after my termination with this therapist (a good termination and planned), I started seeing another therapist. My dissociation had been increasing, and there were many periods of going places during the day and week of which I had little or no memory. We don’t use hypnosis. She has been trained in EMDR, but I’m afraid to do that, and she has never asked me to. In many ways, I wish I could use hypnosis with her, or even by myself now. I believe it would help me relax. ANYWAY, if you are interested in hypnosis, I would suggest finding out what the therapist knows about it and how experience he/she is with it. Even if she/he is NOT experienced very much with hypnosis, trust is the most important thing for YOU. Really, as I see it, hypnosis is not very different, if at all, from relaxation, guided imagery, or some aspect of meditation. YOU should always be in control. For me, though, I was surprised at how quickly the memories showed up, even at the first session…with NO coaching from my therapist. He had just showed me an INNER calander and we went back to the years of my childhood. As things were happening, he might say something like "What’s happening now?" or "What do you see next?" Also, and this was very important for me, we first had created an inside "safe room" where I could go and nobody else could get in unless I invited that person. We also created a file cabinet where I could put things from session to session so I didn’t have to think about it…set up some good boundaries for me…although that didn’t always work and I needed to contact my therapist in between sessions to help me put things back into a manageable perspective. Well, I’ve really talked a lot. I hope some of it can be of help. Faith — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:
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