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HypnoPuppet ago

I'm one of the best Hypnotists in the US. I made this account because if I used my regular one it would be too easy to use all the info to DOX me.

This is real.

I've talked to some of the victims.

Usually what happens is I get a call to see if I would be interested in talking to one of them and set up a phone interview. After the interview if I think I can help we set up a video conference. A few days after the interview, a US Marshall will drop off the full payment in cash up front, so I guess they are in some kind of witness protection program? I need to be able to see their eyes, and watch their breathing for the hypnosis so they can't completely obscure the girls faces but they do wear a face covering so I can't identify them.

When I see them, these girls are really messed up. Dissociative identity disorder, severe anxiety, PTSD, hypnotic conditioning... they have obviously gone through emotional trauma.

All the people contacting me are after is to try and bring them back to some form of being "functional".

This stuff is really messed up. I just needed to get it off my chest.

Piscina ago

Why on Earth would someone bring a traumatised and mentally ill woman to a hypnotist? Doesn't make sense.

Long years of psychological counselling, deep inner work and some pretty hardcore drugs are needed to deal with DID and the other conditions you mention.

Most of these victims would not be able to be hypnotised anyway. Trauma makes people control freaks, unlikely to trust, always on guard, spider senses up, living in a state of high anxiety. These are not people conducive to hypnotism.

HypnoPuppet ago

Hypnosis isn't what you see in the movies. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with giving up control. In fact, it is just the opposite.

"Why on Earth would someone bring a traumatised and mentally ill woman to a hypnotist?"

One of the studies I like reference is for clinical depression. It showed that the recovery rate for different treatment methods is:

Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions.

Behavior modification therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions.

Hypnosis: 93% recovery after 6 sessions.

Source- Alfred A. Barrios, Ph. D. American Health Magazine, August 2006

So the reason they are bringing them to me first is that when hypnosis works, it works very, very quickly. Secondly, in these kind of cases psychiatry tends to make them worse. Modern psychiatry basically operates on drugging patients long term with drugs that have only barely been tested for short term use. There are a ton of former psychiatrists out there claiming not only is psychiatry a fraud, but that it is explicitly harmful. I actually have clients that are psychiatrists that come to me instead of their colleges because "I'm not going to let them do that to me."

But all that is starting to get into a completely different subject and I admit up front I'm a full throated cheerleader for hypnosis.

Piscina ago

I am a survivor of severe childhood trauma. I have experience with psychologists, psychiatrists and in-patient facilities and hypnotists who thought they could 'cure' me in a couple of sessions.. I am one of those it is impossible to hypnotise, as are most people who've experienced complex trauma. I have not met one professional who prescribed hypnotism--REM therapy, CBT therapy, mindfulness meditation yes.

Trauma runs deep. It's never an 'easy fix'. Do I believe hypnotism can work for stopping smoking or bad habits? Yes, but that's not what we're talking about. Trauma re-wires the brain. Hypnotism cannot unwire those centres related to trauma, the changes made to the amygdala. Hypnotism cannot change the physical structure of the brain. The brain is changed only with repeated, ongoing deep work. Survivors of abuse don't just get over it, even with hypnosis; it's a lifelong journey of continuously challenging beliefs caused by trauma, recognising body patterns, recognising triggers and dealing with those triggers, acknowledging the harm done and its consequences, dealing with anger, forgiveness, and much more. I have to question the people bringing traumatised women to you for 'curing'.

You may denigrate psychiatrists, but then you've not spent any time with really ill people whose lives have been saved and who have recovered some level of functionality after being given drugs to deal with schizophrenia, DID, psychosis. I know quite a few people who would now be dead without the drugs prescribed by psychiatrists--drugs that make their lives worth living.

HypnoPuppet ago

"I have experience with psychologists, psychiatrists and in-patient facilities..." So do I.

"You may denigrate psychiatrists, but then you've not spent any time with really ill people..."

I am a Consulting Clinical Hypnotist. The people you talked about, the "psychologists, psychiatrists and in-patient facilities" refer the second group you talked about, the "really ill people...", when they can't help them.

That said, I'm sorry to hear about your past, and I'm glad you found treatment that works for you. I wish you nothing but the best.

Piscina ago

From your comments, I gathered you were a stage hypnotist, not a therapeutic hypnotist. My apologies.