Combating Addiction With Hypnosis

You're reading Combating Addiction With Hypnosis, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Hypnosis is more than what you have seen on television or part of a magic show. Despite the stigma, hypnotherapy has been used to treat insomnia, fear, anxiety and has been considered a breakthrough in addiction treatment. Addiction has gotten a reputation as a disease that cannot be cured. It’s common knowledge that once an addict, always an addict. Even if an addict has been sober for years, there is a relatively strong chance they will relapse at some point. We see evidence for this all the time. Those of us who have suffered from addiction, or are close to someone who has, know that rehabs are crowded with second, third, or fourth-timers. If you don’t personally know someone who has struggled with addiction, you've at least seen high profile celebrities fighting it. Demi Lovato is a recent example of a celebrity who, although sober for six years, relapsed and had to be hospitalized after an overdose. But, having worked with addiction, I am somewhat more hopeful than most. The way I see it, addiction does not have to lurk over an addict’s shoulder for the rest of their lives. It’s not that the problem is incurable, but that the prevalent cures are not that effective. Millions of people have benefited from the 12 Step program, and I am totally supportive of it. Ho...
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