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Vic  - McBurgers |2010-01-05 11:00:54 I was mentally-abused, relentlessly, by my father until the age of 14 at which time my mother moved us all away from his wrath. At about this time, I started abusing alcohol because it made feel confident and happy. At age 16 I began working full-time and then I really started drinking heavily, right up until recently (I still binge,on average, maybe once a week). From age 27 I also formed a marijuana addiction that lasted about 15 years during which time I dabbled in other drugs that were around at the time. Amazingly, through this period, I managed to learn and perform stand-up comedy and even worked as a regular cast-member and script-writer for 2-seasons on a national TV sketch-comedy-show, which aired in the late 90's. Inevitably, my low self-esteem caused me to self-sabotage my career opportunities and most of my relationships. Although alcohol long ago stopped making me feel happy and confident, and I'm not abusing drugs anymore, I today find myself alone and full of fear. I tried antidepressants for a couple of years, been to psychologists, I've read books on losing the ego and on Buddhism etc but to no avail. Throughout my life, I haven't really hurt anyone except myself(I didn't have kids for fear of being like my father) I'm desperate to try anything to help me, and after recently watching a TV program on which a noted British Hypnotist spoke about the increasing success and credibility of hypnosis, I found this site on the internet and liked what I read. By grade-6 I think all schools should teach basic psychology, explaining the different affects that certain actions and behaviors, positive & negative, will have on children as they grow. This would possibly stop or at least put-a-dent in the damage caused to millions of people every day, and, eventually, maybe, after 2 or 3 generations, it could make for a better world? Finally, if worse came to worse and I received some sort of negative affect from hypnosis, eg, the stereotypical crowing like a rooster every time someone said, good morning, it couldn't be any worse than what I go through everyday of my life. Thanks for this opportunity. Peace. Reply 10 1

Deborah Allen  - Insomnia |2010-01-17 05:00:43 I have literally suffered insomnia for my entire 42 years of life. I have tried everything except hypnotherapy. It is time to try that! Reply 1 0

Julie  - Hypnotherapy can help migraine sufferers |2010-01-17 12:10:27 For the greater part of my life I have been a migraine sufferer which included the following: pain in one part of my head, difficulty with vision and finally vomiting. Initially, the only solution was to be driven to the clinic for my doctor to treat me. Apart from the pain etc, I found having a migraine so exhausting In later years my stomach muscles would seize up when I got a migraine - this made the pain even greater and I now had to deal with 2 significant pain areas. I advocated if I could relax my stomach muscles I could then work on easing the migraine- my first goal. My preference is to reduce the amount of medication I take for migraines and this is my second goal. Hypnotherapy has and is assisting me to minimise and control my migraines and I am confident I will be able to achieve both goals. Reply 1 0

Wendy  - Visualising success |2010-02-01 06:07:34 It has been a few years now since a wonderful hypnotherapist helped me but here I am at 4.35 am ... needing some help to sleep. I've got a long way to drive tomorrow to see my sick mother and it may not be safe. My holidays are ending and an extremely stressful job awaits me in just 2 days time and ... and ... (fill in the blanks with mother of all anxieties - being a mother). So over with the complaints and negative thoughts about my future - enough already!! My previous therapist taught me a technique for visualising success in interactions I am dreading the next day. Instead of the negative self-talk -this simple technique involves being in the interaction and mentally walking through the meeting with the boss with me being together, assertive, clear, shoulders back and 'out there' with what needs to be done - getting the authorisation and ... Go Girl. The first time I tried this - It worked - like a dream. Since then I have told 2 of my children about this technique - when they have presentations or exams or job interviews and junior colleagues at work. Alongside this - and for however long I can keep it up - I work on offering positives, wherever I have the opportunity. Even when I have to give uncomfortable feedback I concentrate on all the positive things I can say to and about the person in front of me - and HEY - it works - over and over. I have seen people go wow - you really think so - you think I can do xxx and off they go. Yesterday my younger son's girlfriend started a new job having heard my views about her skills and strengths that were missing from her CV and she could see she had but they were under that bushel. Tonight I am home from seeing an old friend who has been so kind to me over the years but she has become bitter and sad. I think she is grieving her father's death, a relationship that she finds tough and other missed opportunities. What a spiral and I can feel all the weight of her sadness. I am feeling sad for other hurts and injuries that other people close to me are carrying and my own. I know I can't help any of them by worrying about them. I need to find a sleeping technique where I acknowledge these hurts and sadness and put them aside for another time or as something I won't carry into the future. Each of these people needs to find their own path, including and especially my children, but I just can't seem to really accept that my role in their lives is all but over. During the day I can be so practical and accepting but here I am crying in the not so dead of night. Reply 2 0

Palika  - Confidence in our changing world |2010-02-11 15:04:51 I am recovering from postnatal depression and have been medication free for 2 months. Although the despair and helplessness has abated my confidence and self belief has taken a battering. Here is what I learned in the last year of motherhood: 1. Never give up on yourself 2. Ask for help 3. Perfection is the root of evil. Hypnotherapy means to me a chance of finding the strength to initiate change. Sometimes you can be so stuck on your path of self destructiveness you need another voice to put you in the right direction. You might know what your doing is not healthy or in your best interest but you don't have the skills to find other coping mechanisms. Hypnotherapy allows you the freedom to find another path. It does not take away the control but gives it back to you. I want to stop emotionally eating but I don't know what to replace it with. I am yet to find that passion that gives me the same pleasure and stress release that over eating has provided this last year. I do believe that I can find a positive alternative to my low self esteem rather that food. Yet I don't want it to be another addiction such as smoking, alcohol or gambling. With all the stress of modern life I need balance and simplicity. A chance for the mind to relax and smell the roses. Reply 0 0

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