Can Hypnotherapy help PTSD and Trauma?
Yes!
Hypnosis treatment can help PTSD recovery.
PTSD is an acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You may also see CPTSD, which is Complex PTSD.
This just means that brain has become hyper sensitive due to events that happened, and the brain needs retraining to relax.
You may be surprised to hear that hypnosis was used extensive in the first world war, to help
soldiers suffering from shell shock, now often referred to as combat stress - one cause of PTSD.
In 1917, the book
"Shell Shock and its lessons" states
"Among soldiers suffering from the long-standing effects of shell- shock,
hypnosis may be able in some cases to help in the restoration of health with an effectiveness that no other method can rival."
Although they also note some of the limitations, as techniques had yet to fully develop and they were often dealing with
very severe cases.
More recently, in 2008, Eitan Abramowitz and team researched
"hypnotherapy in the treatment of chronic combat-related PSTD patiends suffering from insomnia" and concluded there
were significant improvements from hypnotherapy, which remained after one month check-in.
This included reduced PTSD symptoms, decreased intrusion and avoidance reactions, and improved sleep.
All of that was gained from just four hypnotherapy sessions over two weeks.
In 2016, Siobhan O'Toole and team analysed existing studies (a meta-analysis) of
"Hypnotherapeutic Techniques
in the Treatment of PTSD Symptoms". They concluded that
forms of hypnotherapy were effective treatment for traumatic stress,
with large effect sizes in the samples included.
In addition, the specific PTSD symptoms of intrusion and avoidance were both found to decrease significantly
in response to hypnotherapy. Therefore, in every area measured by this analysis,
hypnotherapeutic techniques significantly reduced PTSD symptoms,
regardless of the time since the trauma occurred and whether it was witnessed, directly experienced, or both.
Hypnotherapy can help in the treatment of PTSD recovery.
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