hypnotherapy

[Archie1962]

hi, just wondering if anyone has tried hypnotherapy for alcohol addiction and if any success please?

[Oldbits]

Hello, this was something my husband considered but decided against. In the end the best thing he did was get cancelling (had to pay) to get to the bottom of why he drank, and how to deal with a life changing illness. Which a very lovely lady did without judgment. Then he went to 'change grow live' via his GP, (you can refer yourself) they used acupuncture on his ears and that really helped with his anxiety over his illness. They also offered cancelling. He got anxious, drank, felt better got anxious, drank etc. Had to break the circle to stop. I guess everyone is different and start for very different reasons. I hope that insight helps. He stopped drinking 21 months ago and is a much happier, better person all round for it. Good luck

[Roy1955]

Looking at your older posts you don't have a drink problem.The only time you have problems is when your sober!

Your not going to quit the booze untill you address, understand, or solve those sober problems.

Anyone can quit drinking but when you quit YOU become a sober drunk, a recovering alcoholic who yearns for his fix.

I solved and accepted my sober problems and now think of myself as a RECOVERED alcoholic.

Hypnotherapy might help kick-start another attempt but sort out what's so bad about being sober as well.

You probably already know the serenity prayer ( I prefer to call it my guide poem).

Change it or accept it.

[moggomereno in reply to Roy1955]

Hi Roy. Solved and accepted your sober problems?I’m not understanding this properly and keen to learn more if you don’t mind. Thanks.

Sorry Archie I don’t know anything about hypnotherapy. All the best.

[Aotea2012]

I get Roy’s post. It perfectly describes difficulty with alcohol. Alcohol crept up on me and became my coping mechanism. I had a very stressful life (created by me!) and used alcohol to take it away. The immediate relief a glass of wine gave me, the euphoria, the feel good and then the oblivion was my every day pattern. Then I woke up in the morning and my life was the same, the alcohol from the previous day only served to make the day I was facing harder and so the pattern repeated that evening. Apart from the weekend when I started drinking earlier under the cover of socialising! My problem was my life not the alcohol. My life crashed, my health crashed and I ended up close to death. That forced me to face my problem and I did something about it. I stopped drinking 2.5 years ago and haven’t looked back because I addressed the underlying cause and have slowly rebuilt my life. I describe it like stripping back an engine and then rebuilding it. It takes time and effort but boy is it worth it. I had support from Turning Point. I didn’t do hypnotherapy but have heard about people who have and it’s had a remarkable effect. I think it depends on you. Personally, it wouldn’t have helped me but I did find out more about it before I discounted it.

[Archie1962]

Thanks all. I was confused at Roy’s response at first but I sort of get it. I don’t think I actually enjoy life, and made me think about why as I have nothing really that’s impacting me now, but a load of stuff in past that I have just placed and nailed down on a box! I absolutely have an addictive personality and I fear I will replace alcohol with something else.

Current addiction being eBay buying and stuff that I don’t even need 🙈

I think I’m going to give hypnotherapy a try. I had a years worth of counselling and did not help tbh. I totally agreed with all their observations but coping insights given did not help. It was all stuff I knew myself.

Think I need something to reset way my brain works and thinking hypnotherapy is worth a try.

Really appreciate all comments 🙂 seems really insignificant given world problems at mo, and think that’s triggering my unhappiness also 😐 I just don’t get how anyone can hate so much to actually kill innocent people. And im not taking sides in that comment. It’s just so sad 😞