Hypnotherapy

I am now on my second day of being codeine free. I’m not quite sure what triggered this abstinence but I’m glad I’ve done it. I feel a bit more awake. The feelings of stress are pretty raw, but I’m coping.

Oddly enough, I’m seriously considering hypnotherapy for the stress. I’ve been hypnotized before, a few years ago, because I used to get panic attacks if I went on holiday without my parents. (It’s a long story). Anyway, before the hypnotism I couldn’t even spend a few nights away from home, now I can happily spend weeks away from home with the boyfriend. I don’t know whether it was the hypnotism, or just the passing of time that cured me, but if by some chance it WAS the hypnotism, it should be able to help me out with the stress, by ‘re-conditioning’ my responses, and breaking old patterns.

When I was hypnotized before , I used to go to this lady’s house once a week and she used to take me to a special room decked out with crystals and candles and I used to recline on a comfy chair with a blanket over my legs, and she used to play soothing music very quietly. I had to close my eyes (which made me feel very vulnerable and self conscious) and listen to her. I wanted so bad for it to work, but there was a part of me that found the whole thing very silly, and the crystals and new age music was a bit OTT. But the fact remains, what I was afraid of then, I am not afraid of now.

While ‘hypnotized’ I was very conscious still, and aware of what she was saying, but time seemed to pass very quickly. An hour would go by in a flash.

SO, I have a number to ring. I have to somehow get a hypnotherapist to undo all my stress responses and put me back together again.