Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Post Traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD) is becoming more prevalent in our society as life traumas and life events becoming more harrowing, what can we do to help people with PTSD ? Well after 13 years service in the Army and events I rather forget, but its not that simple as they are always there in the attic of the mind. They seem to just wait till we are low then they come out to get us, from the darkest corners of our mind. They seem like they will never go and that we must endure them till a miracle happens to take the incident away. But in reality that is not the case I personally carried the events of war for 15 years till my path took me to train as a Hypnotherapist and I came across something miraculous. It was during the training when we built up to regression, my fear of going back to that incident terrified me. I been getting the nightmares of the event for years and the got worse with stress. The self medication of alcohol so that I could just go into a deep slumber only worked for a brief period of time. Then the realisation of the alcohol which can become a crutch is actual a depressant and can lower one deeper into the whole, that you think your in. so during my training we covered content free regression and we had to experience it and practice on each other. so when my turn can I was very nervous and thought that I would freak out or break the walls down trying to run away. But during the process as these feeling started to build in me, I started rather than fighting them to let them go. this caused a massive shift in me and I came out of trance and felt as if a massive weight had been lifted from me. I finally through Hypnosis manage to process the emotion attached to the memory that I not dealt with and this is what had caused my PTSD. Once processed the emotion can change the content of the memory and you can allow the issues to go. It can be complicated for treatment of PTSD, but I belief that if you get to the root cause and then build resources in. you can then use content free regression to process the initial event, this can allow shifts in the unconscious mind. allowing the client to let the event go, if its a complicated case with many layers it can be used like an onion and peeling back the event layer by layer. The hardest thing is getting the client to a point where they have the resources to go through the regression and the the process can be quite disturbing to therapist. but if an abreaction occurs it should be utilised to the benefit of the therapy session. PTSD is one of the complicate case to work with as each client is different and the triggers are individual, but with resource and a methodical approach they can be helped.

Hypnotherapy can help PTSD in many ways, from building in resources to helping revisit the traumatic event. But personally I think the most powerful therapy is content free regression.

Because this is all an internal process the client does not have to externalize the trauma, thus giving it more energy.

So if you have been suffering with PTSD for a long time, why not try Hypnosis and the you may be surprised what can be achieved.