See if you can top this one!

This wacko therapy i tried early in my diagnosis thirty years ago was called "Holotropic Breathwork." A select group of a prestigious psychiatrists patients were invited to attend Saturday sessions. We were paired into "practicers" and "watchers." The practicers DID the actual therapy and the watchers kept an eye on them to make sure they didn't get into trouble, which i guess meant getting hysterical or clawing at yourself or something.

This therapy was supposed to be real shattering!

Anyways, it took place in a large empty comfortably-carpeted dark basement room of someone's home. The practicers laid down on the floor and the watchers sat close by. Loud evocative music was played and you were supposed to breathe in a pattern that was never clear to me. It went on for several hours.

There were people writhing on the floor and pounding with their fists on the floor and calling out for "mother!" It was very weird. I didn't experience anything much. Then we had lunch and in the afternoon the psychiatrist led us in a debriefing session, analyzing everyone's experiences.

There's a book written on the subject, by this psychiatrist's brother, Stan Grof, called, "The Holotropic Mind." I read it and according to it you are supposed to re-experience the four stages of birth, down the birth canal! Eeew! I don't want to remember THAT!

Anyways, it was all real whack and i only attended about three times. Later i found out that psychiatrists meeting with patients off-hospital-campus is strictly forbidden but i had no idea then. I figure, what did it cost me, three Saturdays? Worth a try, anyways. It was an experience.

So that's the most whack therapy i have ever tried.

You?