Does anyone know if hypnotherapy can be used to treat agoraphobia?
I was diagnosed with agoraphobia over a year ago. I have tried Cognative Behavioral Therapy but that didn’t work and am on anti depressants. While I have started to improve slightly, taking my daughter to school with the help of my dog, I was wondering if hypnotherapy was an option. If so, does anyone know how to go about it?
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Sure it works. It takes some time though- it doesn’t happen overnight in most cases. Walking with your dog is a great step.
If you do hypnotherapy, you change your thought pattern,. So when you’re walking, you don’t think "Ok I’m doing ok.. I’m nervous.. calm down. I’ll be home soon" No.
Your brain is program to think "I love being out!" and you don’t even consciously think about it.
You can get a program like The Linden Method
http://www.panic-anxiety.com/
You can download to MP3 a single session
http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/downloads/phobias_fears/agoraphobia.html
Or you can record your own script (you’d need a script)
http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/book.php?pn=K358 has a 2-script combo specifically for agoraphobia.
You could also see a professional if there’s a good one in your area, but if you do it yourself, you can do it every day.
I think hypnotherapy can be used for MANY phobias. You can contact a local hypnotherapist to find out.
You should ask your therapist about this. See if they have known people or heard of people (in medical journals) who have had success with this.
apparently hypnotherapy can treat all phobias.
not sure how this would do that.
In my NHS trust you can get hypnotherapy on the NHS for this disorder (and others).
yes – but you would have been better off using a sytematic desensitisation prograame. Ask your therapist why they did not devise one for you. they are very effective for the treatment of phobias of any kind.
In theory it should be able to help more than any other therapy. However I have a couple of phobias myself,but am reluctant to put my mind in the hands of anyone else so I cannot say from personal experience that it works