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Mental Health with Hypnotherapy
Think about your daily routine. From the minute you wake
up in the morning, to the moment you get back into bed at the end of
the day, you generally take on a wide number of different
personalities. The way you conduct yourself with your family would not
be the same way in which you conduct yourself with your friends, which
is definitely not the way you conduct yourself at work. Surely, if you
spot a courageous fool walking around with a foul mouth at work,
spewing hate and inappropriate language left and right, you would learn
to avoid him. You shift your normal personality to best fit your
environment, as a result creating a whole new one.
At the end of
the day, when we settle back into bed, we once again become the person
that we truly know we are. Our abilities to transcend through different
personalities is fascinating, but what's more fascinating is that we
are constantly aware of who we truly are. There is a statistically
small group of people in the world that suffers from a personality
disorder that takes away from their given ability to differentiate
their personalities. This is known as dissociative personality disorder
or better known as multiple personality disorder (MPD).
MPD had
only been inducted into the DSM-III in 1980, having been most often
misdiagnosed as schizophrenia before. The correct definition is when "a
system of thought can be split off from the primary personality,
congealing over time as a secondary personality that is unconscious,
but which can be accessed by hypnosis."
The majority of cases of
MPD are developed in patients who have suffered a variety of traumatic
events during childhood. These events can be abuse (physical, sexual,
psychological), suicide, death(s) in the family, etc. One study found
that 93% of 53 personalities discovered in 12 cases were the result of
a traumatic experience during childhood (Bliss, 1984). What is even
more amazing is that a large percent of the people who were suffering
from these disorders didn't even realize it.
Their symptoms were
simply discomforts during their every day lives such as bouts of
depression, sleepwalking, inability to keep relationships, fits of
rage, etc. Through the induced state of hypnosis, doctors were able to
coax out the different personalities that laid dormant, trapped in the
shell of one particular body.
An article published in Psychology: Theory, Research & Practice
brought together many different studies that were done on the subject
of MPD. It made references to 3 particular cases of MPD involving three
different women. All three women have suffered some sort of abuse,
whether self-imposed or external. Between the three of them, there had
been a whopping 21 different personalities.
They described a
variety of different symptoms such as hearing voices (both internal and
external), amnesia, lucid dreams, and erratic behavior. When placed in
a hypnotic trance, the personalities surfaced and explained their
stories to the psychiatric staff. The personalities ranged from young
children, to old women, to even alien bodies that could only be set
free if the host had passed away. Each personality even came with their
own set of fears, possibly explaining their origin in association to
that particular emotion.
With the help of hypnotherapy,
researchers were able to find the root of the problem and discomfort
that plagued these women's lives. Not only has hypnotherapy been proven
to change lives from the inside out, but it has also helped aid
diagnosis of disorders, such as MPD, many of which would have been
otherwise misdiagnosed and drugged without seeing any effective
results. Hypnotherapy can help reveal inner most thoughts that you
yourself may never have even known you had.
Source:
Price,
R. (1987, September). Dissociative disorders of the self: A continuum
extending into multiple personality. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research,
Practice, Training, 24(3), 387-391. Retrieved January 17, 2009, doi:
10.1037/h0085730
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What is Hypnosis?
The concept of hypnosis is an extremely misunderstood one - even in our so called 'age of information'. For accurate information on what hypnosis really involves:
