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Mental Health Support

ALBliberal

(3,049 posts) Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:04 PM Jun 10

Has anyone had an experience with hypnosis for help

with anxiety and other issues? Pain management? Thanks for any replies.

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Has anyone had an experience with hypnosis for help (Original Post) ALBliberal Jun 10 OP

No, but Many Lives Many Masters is a fabulous book sbout it! SheltieLover Jun 10 #1

Looking the book up! ALBliberal Jun 10 #4

It was a "can't put it down" book for me SheltieLover Jun 10 #5

When I was a kid, our dentist would hypnotize us instead of giving us novacaine. It did the trick. OLDMDDEM Jun 10 #2

I used hypnosis and post-hypnotic suggestions NewDayOranges Jun 10 #3

I used it to quit smoking. murielm99 Jun 10 #6

SheltieLover

(70,563 posts)

1. No, but Many Lives Many Masters is a fabulous book sbout it!

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:09 PM

Jun 10

Enjoy!

On edit: any library should have it.

ALBliberal

(3,049 posts)

4. Looking the book up!

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:18 PM

Jun 10

SheltieLover

(70,563 posts)

5. It was a "can't put it down" book for me

Reply to ALBliberal (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:24 PM

Jun 10

Enjoy

OLDMDDEM

(2,580 posts)

2. When I was a kid, our dentist would hypnotize us instead of giving us novacaine. It did the trick.

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:11 PM

Jun 10

NewDayOranges

(745 posts)

3. I used hypnosis and post-hypnotic suggestions

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:14 PM

Jun 10

To quit smoking 22 years ago and later to stop re-playing memories of incidents of domestic abuse...

murielm99

(32,078 posts)

6. I used it to quit smoking.

Reply to ALBliberal (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 04:36 PM

Jun 10

It helped, but quitting was still a long process for me.

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