Has anyone here had personal experience with hypnotherapy or know anyone who has?
Did it achieve the goals?
I'm interested in hearing peoples experienes involving hypnotherapy as my completly stupid paranio of needles is now beginning to really bug me.
Did it achieve the goals?
I'm interested in hearing peoples experienes involving hypnotherapy as my completly stupid paranio of needles is now beginning to really bug me.
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angusabranson- Angus Abranson
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It is also very expensive, but worth every penny if you see the right person.
I don't have a huge thing about needles but I am kind of nervous around them, and I have just completed a 10 session course of acupuncture for my neck and back. It probably would have worked too, if I hadn't decided to take up moshing again now that my neck was feeling a bit better.
Be it for travelling to weird and exotic places, going to the dentist or just having a health check.
The idea of having an injection in my gum currently terrifies me. I've never had an injection in my mouth as I always preferred to just let the dentist drill away!!!!!
Also, if I get over my fear of needles I might be more inclined to get a tattoo, which is something I've always fancied.
Of course she'll probably see this post, but I thought I'd be helpful for a change.
I just go into a complete cold sweat and nervous wreck if I have to have an injection.
I know they don't 'usually' hurt that much and when I'm actually having a blood test I can quite easily watch the needle suck out my lifejuice with no worries!
What I need to get over is the sleeplessness and worry and PURE TERROR that leads up to the injection/blood test/whatever.
I feel hypnotherapy is probably the best route for this currently.
No matter how irrational it is, it usually has a rational cause- something that can be traced and altered. Most phobias are due to faulty learning- You're already on the path to defeating it because you've acknowledged it's irrational. What's needed is to find out how it became faulty, which aspects of it actually cause the terror and what can be done to allay those fears.
Paying someone to bore you half to sleep and then tell you these things don't bother you anymore/associate them with positive things feels downright wrong to me.
I always had adverse reactions to the innoculations I had as a kid - and then got the damn bugs anyway and sometimes pretty bad!!!
I know their is a school of thought that tells me if I didn't have those innoculations my bouts of measels/scarlet fever/etc could have been a lot worse and may have killed me - but I'm willing to bet they wouldn't have done.
My arms would often blow up slightly after an innoculation and hurt like hell for a few days. By the time I was 12 I was so tense that I almost broke a needle in my arm - which obviously made matters worse.
Two of my sisters are absolutely fine with needles but the third shares my horror (although apparently to a slightly lesser extent as she just went for a couple fo vacinations yesterday for her holiday to Malaysia). She has a lot more reason to as she had to have an injection IN HER EYE WHILST AWAKE!!! I think I'd almost prefer to die.....
I've known my fear is irrational ever since I was about 14 - but it doesn't lessen the fear.
The most important thing you will need is to be able to trust the doctor. Get refferals, call the refferals.