Talk about weird dissociation. Has anyone been hypnotized before? My mom made me try it while I was in college for the ED. Really weird. The hypnotist cannot make you say or do anything you ordinarily would object to, I remembered it all (for some reason! I thought a person just forgot what happened under hypnosis.). But I remember the hypnotist telling me to raise my right arm and thinking I had no objection to that, so I did it. It seemed like an OK idea. Same with the left arm.

I didn’t have much of a breakthrough during the session, except a rembrance of a carpet color from long ago that was part of the sexual abuse incident. Hypnotist told my mom she thought I had been sexually abused, but that is the case of over half of those with EDs. Strangely, I did start to recover after that, but if it was hypnosis, time, just fed up with feeling like crap, looking 50 when I was 20, who knows? I recovered enough over the summer to graduate with my B.S. by December. (I had to withdraw from the spring semester, when I should have graduated.). Still was nice to get the year 2000 class ring. I liked the idea of graduating at the start of the new millennium.