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| grayson |
Posted - 01/30/2005 : 22:52:45
Has anybody tried implementing hypnosis into their treatment of TMS?
If TMS starts and is brought about by actions in the unconscious, it seems logical to try and attack the unconscious through hypnosis. Maybe with hypnosis, a patient could more effectively communicate to his unconscious that he knows the trick his unconscious is doing and that he wants it to stop.
I have been thinking about trying this in my TMS regimen. Over the last year of doing the traditional things: meditating on my emotions (as suggested by Sarno's book), journaling, stopping with medicines, and beginning to be more physically active; I have had some success, but things have to seemed to reach a plateau, which I really want to bust through. Maybe hypnosis is the trick, because I dont' really know what is exactly the source of my unconscious rage. Rather than go throught the whole, expensive psychotherapy route (I'm not aware of any traumas in my past), I thought maybe positive suggestions to my unconscious while in trance may successful get my unconscious to stop the pain, because it knows its charade has been exposed.
Does anybody have any exeprience on with this? Thoughts on the idea? Just generaly strategies to push through the plateaus and reach that elusvie area of fully functional?
Thanks for everybody's help.
Grayson |
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| Laura |
Posted - 01/31/2005 : 11:22:36
Grayson,
My husband has been recommending that I try hypnosis for nearly three years. He has a psychology degree and is in complete agreement that my dizziness is TMS. My husband thinks that hypnosis would accomplish several things. First of all, it could help a person delve deeper into their subconscious and try to bring forward information that is being repressed. That is the obvious benefit. But secondly, just like people quit smoking through hypnosis and stop other unwanted behaviors or habits, he believes hypnosis would help me to stop fixating on the dizziness so much. Through hypnosis, a suggestion is made to your subconscious to try to eliminate unwanted patterns of thinking or behaving. If someone were to put me under and suggest that I would not feel dizzy, or that if the dizziness happened I were to laugh or have some other thought, I do believe this could help. I've just been too lazy to go out and actually try it.
I will tell you I went through hypnosis many years ago to try and help eliminate a phobia I had. It was pretty heavy stuff -- getting into my subconscious and thinking about things that happened as a child. I found it to be very helpful but after awhile I ran out of cash and stopped going.
I think you should try it. What have you got to lose (except some money and time). If you are open to it, and it sounds like you are, then try it once or twice and see if it helps to break loose some of the repressed baggage you are carrying around in your subconscious. It might be just the thing for you. Let us know if it helps too!
Best of luck to you.
Laura
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| Dave |
Posted - 01/31/2005 : 07:42:04
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Originally posted by grayson
Has anybody tried implementing hypnosis into their treatment of TMS?
Searches for a "quick fix" or alternate treatment can be likened to avoidance. The treatment is knowledge, acceptance, reconditioning, and getting in touch with your emotions. I'm not sure what hypnosis would accomplish. |
| Tunza |
Posted - 01/31/2005 : 03:04:30
Grayson.
Good question.
I think that lots of different techniques have the potential to work alongside the TMS theory. I just think you have to be careful to get a therapist who understands TMS completely.
When I was a teenager I had crippling panic attacks in the classroom and spent many hours in the sick bay. It mortified me having to walk out of the classroom as I was (and still am) very self-conscious and this made people notice me (and think I was strange).
I had talk therapy and it did nothing. I asked to have hypnotherapy and at first they said I was too young but then they agreed to it and I recovered from my panic attacks after about 6 or so sessions. I had a really good year at school after that but then the next year I got anorexia. I recovered from that but then when I went into the workforce I developed pain. I still have generalised anxieties and a phobia of being trapped in violently moving transport (affects plane travel, boats, roller-coasters etc). Also a major fear of throwing up. All these fears revolve around being out of control.
My mother told me recently that the therapists I saw as a teenager had told her that although I had stopped having panic attacks I would go on to develop other problems. So they must have known they hadn't gotten to the bottom of the matter. When I did the hypnotherapy it was all about self-relaxation really. It wasn't about going back into my past experiences and finding out the reason for my fears. So really it was like medicine for the symptoms. It is really useful to learn how to relax but the reason for me being so tense in the first place wasn't addressed properly.
I say give it a go with the proviso that you work back into your early emotions to release them properly. I am very interested in Brandon Bay's The Journey process for doing this and will report back to the forum once I've seen a psychotherapist who is trained in it (I've located one but now I have to locate the cash!).
Kat |
| miehnesor |
Posted - 01/31/2005 : 00:15:37
I tried hypnosis for a few months but didn't find it all that helpful. For me I had to find out what the TMS was trying to prevent me from doing. It is only in the last year or less that I realize a big part of it is to prevent me from having anger to my parents. The tipoff was when I realized that I virtually never really got anger with my folks especially my mother who I have a close relationship with. I know this is true because when I talk about the trauma that happened to me in childhood I start to feel that fear response come up and I also feel some modulation of my chronic TMS symptoms. I think it's a good start to really take a look at your source figures and see if there is anything about those relationships that could use some probing. It's kind of like shooting in the dark but sooner or later you are going to hit something and it's going to get your attention. |
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