What Can Hypnotherapy Be Used to Treat?
What Can Hypnotherapy Be Used to Treat?
I would like you to take the time to picture for a moment the type of person you imagine sitting across from a therapist. Who do you see? How do you see them as? What are they there for? Close your eyes and simply imagine the different scenarios that could play out. And when you have the different scenarios or the answers to those three questions, open your eyes.
Do you see therapy as being only for the weak? What are the odds that you do? According to Onepoll Survey, 47% of Americans believe that getting therapy is a form of weakness. Most of them, 30% to be exact, decided against treatment because they pictured their problems as being not “big enough.” So how big does someone need to picture their problems before they will see themselves in therapy? Apparently the problem has to be pretty huge because 88% of that group agreed they had at least one of the symptoms that clinicians use to assess for clinical depression, and yet they still couldn’t see themselves as qualified for therapy! So how is their picture of therapy skewing reality?
Let’s put their reality into perspective. They make up about half of the Americans who are treating mental health like it’s a form of cancer—as if the problem has to be as big as cancer to seek treatment. Yet most people aren’t aware that they have cancer until they are diagnosed. And while it can take weeks or months to diagnose someone with cancer, getting an accurate diagnosis for a mental health condition can take weeks to years! Mental Health America has stated that 1 out of 5 American adults will have a diagnosable mental health condition in any given year! And still people delay or refuse treatment because they believe they don’t need help until it becomes life threatening. But mental health can worsen in stages like cancer, where waiting too long can become life threatening or depressing, making life less enjoyable or excruciatingly so. Everyday people get screened for cancer to enable early prevention. Why not do this for mental health? 53% of Americans didn’t agree that therapy is a form of weakness. Guess what their pictures look like?
People are turning to therapy for general improvement. They want to be happier, more positive, more productive, more confident, or more skilled than they already are! People have been opting-in for appointments to improve their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or social well-being knowing that good mental health can positively change their body’s entire ecosystem. It is being used to help people overcome poor eating habits, which may then indirectly help reverse conditions such as chronic kidney disease. Hypnotherapy can improve your results in sports, taking your skills to new levels. It can be used to strengthen your relationships, whether they’re deteriorating or staying at a certain level of resolve. It can help speed up your recovery from something as major or as minor as a breakup.
People are turning to hypnotherapy as a means of prevention, as an upkeep to their mental health, using it in conjunction with check-ups and screenings for mental health conditions they could inherit like Alzheimer’s. Although nothing has been found to reverse Alzheimer’s, hypnotherapy has been used to both prevent it and reduce its symptoms. It has been used to enhance memory and reduce stress. Studies have shown that stress may exacerbate the onset of Alzheimer’s. After all, it’s a lot harder to fight off diseases when you’re stressed. In fact, having poor mental health can make the immune system vulnerable and open to attack but a strong parasympathetic system can combat that by decreasing the body’s levels of stress. So it’s not surprising that hypnotherapy can also be used to strengthen the immune system where autoimmune diseases need strengthening.
Hypnotherapy is for every stage of mental health development, whether you are in good mental health or poor mental health. It can be used to change your mindset to be more positive, more confident, or more productive, so give yourself a little splurge of mental relaxation and give Life Hypnotherapy a free try.
