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(JD) · Feb 08, 2009, 10:45 AM

Hi! Hypnotherapy is quite safe when used with a trained therapist. Also, you say you have DID, does the hypnotherapist know this? It's very important information, the T needs to work quite slowly and stay keen to the data you give.

Yes, those with DID are dissociative! That's the basis of hypnotherapy: dissociation. So you won't be doing anything you don't already do every day...but will be safer perhaps because it will be "controlled" better than when you find yourself losing time during the day etc. (That isn't necessarily unsafe, but it must be a fearful situation when you regain your reality and realize you don't know what you just did or said?)

A trained therapist can use hypnotherapy to ease you through a block that you want to uncover but consciously you cannot seem to...

You and the therapist need to have a set goal, perhaps just one to begin with, of what it is you want from the hypnotherapy session(s.)
That will help you know that the T won't be delving into areas you aren't sure you wish to go. (BUT even with hypnotherapy, you are still basically in control (all of you perhaps at the same time) and you won't do or say anything that isn't "you" anyway.)

Even if there were any unwelcomed suggestions such as a hypnotist on stage might give someone (like clucking like a chicken) it doesn't last but a few minutes, and no one who does that has any aversion to doing so on stage, etc. They are not doing anything they wouldn't perhaps do on whim. SeeBut your T won't do such a thing, being a trained hypnotherapist (not a hypnotist.)

This is used for therapy, helping you heal. You can ask for trying it just for say 5 minutes... if you need even more sense of control.

(We have a member here who is a certified hypnotherapist...hopefully he'll see the thread. ) TC!