
Originally Posted by
miss courtney link=board=1;threadid=6032;start=msg66821#msg66821 date=1075071205
I saw a hypnotherapist for a while to deal with my childhood issues, maybe she wasnt suited to me, or it is hard for me to be hypnotised. I found that it didnt work on me very well, but I found I could talk to her, so we ended up doing that instead of hypnotising. I want to try a diff person though to see if it was just her, or if I cant be hypnotised.
Hypnotherapy isn't really good for dealing with childhood issues. The most it does is allow you to relax and let what your subconscious mind (your uninhibited mind) say what it thinks went on then. That's it. What it recalls is NOT what happened. Sorry. Human brains are not video recorders. Our brains are barely able to recall the name of the person we met at the bar last night.
If you want to deal with childhood issues, you can do two things:
1) You can talk to a psychotherapist.
2) You can talk to a close friend.
The difference between those two is that your close friend knows you, cares about you, won't shut you up at the end of an hour, and doesn't have an economic interest to keep you talking for years on the couch.
The negative thing about talking to one of your close friends is if your close friend is a moron. And that's where psychotherapists get us. They know we know our friends are morons. They also realize that we think psychotherapists aren't. Note the word "think" in that last sentence.
Seriously, if you have an intelligent close friend that understands human nature, they're probably better for you than a psychotherapist. If you don't have such a friend or feel uncomfortable baring your soul to a close friend (but not a complete stranger), give psychotherapists a try.
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