Posted by Dinah on July 24, 2008, at 20:57:31
The hypnotherapy appointment is Monday. Just a meet and greet. No hypnosis.
I really want to cancel.
I'm worried that I won't be hynotizable. Maybe with my therapist, but no one else. Or if anyone else, probably not a woman. And if a woman, probably not one who didn't sound confident. Wouldn't confidence in voice be a requirement for hypnosis?
I'm so confused about this. On the one hand, I must be suggestible. I'm pretty sure I self hypnotize all the time, and my therapist agrees. He's afraid that hypnosis might be too much for me. That my dissociative tendencies might be too much for it. I'm more afraid that I won't be at all a good subject for it. I think I've held hypnosis out as one of the hopes for the future. I don't like putting one of my last hopes to the test.
I keep remembering that I got absolutely nothing out of EMDR. And worse, I now am aware that EMDR doesn't work for me. How many things do I really want to know don't work for me?
Arrrrrgh. Why couldn't my stupid therapist train in hypnosis instead of sex addiction? He's got a perfect voice for it.
I really don't have time for it now, either. I'm so far behind. And I can't fit any sessions in the next few weeks. Why did I decide to make the call now? I've thought of hypnotherapy for years.
My therapist thinks I should go ahead and go Monday, even if I can't immediately schedule more appointments. He thinks I should consider it a consultation into whether hypnosis would be helpful to me. I'm supposed to sign something tomorrow so he can call her to tell her about me.
But he'll forget, and there's only a few hours for them to get together since she's out of town until Monday. I don't want to have to explain things that he could explain much better, and in a way she wouldn't think was weird. Or not as weird.
poster:Dinah
thread:841865
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