Posted by Dinah on July 28, 2008, at 16:37:30
At the end of today's introductory session, the hypnotherapist did what I recognized as one of the tests to determine hypnotizability. I pretty much flunked it. She talked afterwards about how even a light trance could cause positive changes, even if a person was totally aware of their surroundings and didn't feel like they were in a trance at all. I figure she was downgrading my expectations, and trying to make the positive suggestion that I'd find it useful anyway.
I did make another appointment with her, but later discovered that I have another doctor's appointment at that time so I will call and cancel. If I still think it might be useful by the time my son goes back to school, I'll call for an appointment then.
I neither liked nor disliked her. She appeared blank now and then, so I asked if what I was saying made sense. She said that she was used to the way people with OCD spoke. How they talked in circles, with the important stuff at the beginning or end. I tried for the next little while to take the middle out of what I was saying, but it was too hard so I left her to sort it out.
That's the thing I remember most, so it must have annoyed me.
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