Stopping Smoking Support thread

[CropleyWasGod]

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Very interesting. My wife arranged to go to a hypnotherapist about her phobia of spiders but had to cancel as she tested positive for Covid. The hypnotherapist replied saying that this was very telling that she had cancelled and that she could tell from this that she neither had a fear of spiders nor had covid and that she really had a deep rooted fear of losing control most probably derived from childhood trauma and/or abuse.

All of this she apparently garnered from “sorry, I have to cancel our appointment as I have tested positive for Covid”

Absolute nonsense - no trauma or abuse, both of us had covid and she was/is terrified of spiders as is common. It really put my wife off going for any sort of hypnotherapy.

Presumably she could have complained about the woman to the relevant body?

Jeezo .

Did she do mind-reading on the side? If so, she wasn't very good at it.

No decent therapist would do or say anything like that. It just makes the responsible ones look like snake-oil people.

To answer your question, yes, absolutely.

[Pretty Boy]

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Very interesting. My wife arranged to go to a hypnotherapist about her phobia of spiders but had to cancel as she tested positive for Covid. The hypnotherapist replied saying that this was very telling that she had cancelled and that she could tell from this that she neither had a fear of spiders nor had covid and that she really had a deep rooted fear of losing control most probably derived from childhood trauma and/or abuse.

All of this she apparently garnered from “sorry, I have to cancel our appointment as I have tested positive for Covid”

Absolute nonsense - no trauma or abuse, both of us had covid and she was/is terrified of spiders as is common. It really put my wife off going for any sort of hypnotherapy.

Presumably she could have complained about the woman to the relevant body?

That's really poor.

I would urge her to try again with another hypnotherapist. I used CBT in the past to deal with my anxiety but complimented it some time later with hypnotherapy to tackle my almost crippling shyness and social awkwardness in certain social situations.

It may not be for everyone but it certainly can work. I went from being unable to maintain eye contact for more than a couple of seconds, becoming really clammy and faint when meeting new people and actively hiding when in public to avoid making contact with someone I knew but was uncomfortable around socially to working in a job that requires me to meet all kinds of new people weekly in a relatively short space of time.

During COVID when redundancy was a real possibility for me it was one of a couple of new careers I considered seriously looking into and I might still revisit it again in the future when the timing is more suitable.