How effectively can phobias be cured?

In yesterday's Guardian was a story about a poor girl who died of starvation after dental treatment went wrong and she developed a phobia. Now clearly there's a lot to be said about the role of the health service and social services here. I'll leave that for others.

 

What concerns me is this, from the article: "Although Sophie's case is exceptional, it raises questions about the way children with phobias are treated - and about the quality of community psychological care. Sophie developed her phobia at the age of four when a dentist scratched her tongue accidentally. From that time, her mother said that whenever she tried to take her for treatment she would run out of the surgery with her hand clamped over her mouth.” 
 

Eventually Sophie had all her teeth removed during surgery, “because the hospital dentist knew she was frightened and removing them all would prevent problems in the future.” 
 

All I know about this is the Guardian story and not the deep background. That said, if we're dealing with a child with dental phobia there's just no need for it to have reached this tragic conclusion. No need whatsoever.

In hypnotic NLP there's a technique known as the fast phobia cure. I've had great results with clients who have had real problems with phobias – heights, public speaking, all sorts – including recently a phobic reaction to other people being sick. It's quick, easy, and NLP practitioners and hypontherapists will all confirm how effective this technique is.

So why isn't it used as a matter of course in cases such as Sophie? I wish I knew. Sometimes people object to quick and easy cures because they don't get to the root of the problem, or because they may not last forever. Okay that's fine. The issue with not getting to the root may mean the cure needs to be applied again. Well, hell, it takes twenty minutes or less. If the technique had to be run through every time Sophie went to the dentist where's the problem with that?

There are other ways of getting successful dental treatment using hypnosis. In fact, some people opt not to have an anaesthetic and receive treatment while in trance.

Please, if you have any limits placed on your medical or dental treatment by your phobias or fears, seek out an NLP Practitioner, Hypnotist or Hypnotherapist. Let's have no more Sophies.

Edit: Steve Tromans writes - Thanks Ian, Laura Spicer has just uploaded a short video about this onto YouTube. To see it directly on YouTube go here: NLP Fast Phobia Cure

In yesterday's Guardian was a story about a poor girl who died of starvation after dental treatment went wrong and she developed a phobia. Now clearly there's a lot to be said about the role of the health service and social services here. I'll leave that for others.

What concerns me is this, from the article: "Although Sophie's case is exceptional, it raises questions about the way children with phobias are treated - and about the quality of community psychological care. Sophie developed her phobia at the age of four when a dentist scratched her tongue accidentally. From that time, her mother said that whenever she tried to take her for treatment she would run out of the surgery with her hand clamped over her mouth.” 
 

Eventually Sophie had all her teeth removed during surgery, “because the hospital dentist knew she was frightened and removing them all would prevent problems in the future.” 
 

All I know about this is the Guardian story and not the deep background. That said, if we're dealing with a child with dental phobia there's just no need for it to have reached this tragic conclusion. No need whatsoever.

In hypnotic NLP there's a technique known as the fast phobia cure. I've had great results with clients who have had real problems with phobias – heights, public speaking, all sorts – including recently a phobic reaction to other people being sick. It's quick, easy, and NLP practitioners and hypontherapists will all confirm how effective this technique is.

So why isn't it used as a matter of course in cases such as Sophie? I wish I knew. Sometimes people object to quick and easy cures because they don't get to the root of the problem, or because they may not last forever. Okay that's fine. The issue with not getting to the root may mean the cure needs to be applied again. Well, hell, it takes twenty minutes or less. If the technique had to be run through every time Sophie went to the dentist where's the problem with that?

There are other ways of getting successful dental treatment using hypnosis. In fact, some people opt not to have an anaesthetic and receive treatment while in trance.

Please, if you have any limits placed on your medical or dental treatment by your phobias or fears, seek out an NLP Practitioner, Hypnotist or Hypnotherapist. Let's have no more Sophies.

Stop Blushing: Is Hypnosis Or Surgery Best

'Stop Blushing', Debbie Williams' multi-track recording, now also has a website of its own - http://www.stop-blushing.com

Because this is a website over several pages, it is able to go into more depth in terms of what it says about blushing, and also about other treatment options, including ETS surgery for blushing, and the side effects of ETS surgery

ETS Surgery For Blushing

The letters ETS stand for endoscopic transthoracic sympathectomy, a keyhole surgery technique that cuts the nerves that are partly responsible for the blushing response. ETS can also be used to treat excessive sweating. Sometimes the sympathetic nerve is snipped, in which case the process can be reversed (though this reversal cannot be guaranteed), sometimes it is severed completely. It can be a successful procedure though there is a risk of side effects.

Side Effects Of Surgery

By no means all people who have surgery for blushing experience side effects, although if you scan the Internet you will find plenty of people complaining about their experiences following ETS. Loss of sensation in other areas can be experienced, after all, nerves have been severed. The lung needs to be deflated during the operation which means there is a slight risk to either lungs or heart. The pain from the operation usually, but not in every single case, goes away

Usually the operation is successful, and the fact that people actually get to the point of wanting nerves severed to overcome blushing shows how desperate some people are to stop blushing

For Goodness Sake Get a Good Self Hypnosis Recording To Stop Blushing

After all, they often work when listened to repeatedly, and reputable organisations will always provide you with a money back guarantee. Or alternatively, go and see a really experienced practitioner of both hypnotherapy and NLP, there are plenty of them on this site.

Edit: Just put a video online about this, to see it durectly on YouTube go here Cure For Blushing

Stop Binge Drinking Video

Alcohol Abuse And Binge Drinking

Here's a video I recently put on YouTube. As getting people to stop binge drinking is one of the main areas of my work these days, this video is longer than most, but I think it gets the points across well enough.

How Hypnotherapy And NLP Combine For Binge Drinking Treatment

As I say in the video, this is all about training the mind to be in control, but this training takes place 'in advance'. The main difference between a binge drinker and someone who drinks alcohol moderately is that the binge drinker is on autopilot to drink excessively, and the non binge drinker is on autopilot not to. When the mind is educated and trained, in advance, to expect to drink in moderation, that's what happens because unless and until something happens in the mind, the person will tend to repeat drinking patterns over and over and over again

When these NLP mind training techniques are then combined with a whole host of hypotherapeutic technique the results are usually positive, and usually fast. Both NLP and hypnosis can independently cure binge drinking problems, but the combination is the most effective way of treating people I know.

Is It Really This Simple

With extreme and chronic alcoholism, however, it can take a great deal longer but with the vast majority of cases of binge drinking, even when the problems have been extreme, a couple of hours will usually sort it out.

More Self Confidence

Laura Spicer talks about how to have more self confidence

We have now produced a series of videos introducing our work in video format. This one, by Laura Spicer, talks about self confidence, and what we do to help people to experience more self esteem and begin to feel better about themselves. So here it is:

To view this video on YouTube go here More Self Confidence

Confidence And Esteem

Remember, as with all our work, this isn't therapy, it isn't going over the past to find out, in this case, why you had 'low self esteem', a 'poor self image' or low levels of confidence', it is a combination of education and training that has proven time and time again to be a rapid and effective way of solving all sorts of problems for people. We literally work with the way that you experience yourself, the way you have unwittingly learned to think, feel and experience, the way you see things, imagine things, remember things, talk to yourself about things and feel things. The work is based upon modelling people who think, feel and behave ion resourceful ways, and it is also based upon the careful examination of the work of great therapists.

Self Image, Self Esteem, Self Confidence and More

They are just words, really, and different people will describe their issues in different ways. The important thing is to deal with what is going on with a person, not what these things are called. That's why I like NLP, it gets to the heart of the matter in a pragmatic no-nonsense way and simply gets the job done. I have know Laura Spicer for more than ten years and can thoroughly recommend her as one of the most effective practitioners in her field.