Hampshire Hypnotherapy and Counselling Centre (private clinic)

Sly Saint

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Came across their website
Help for ME and CFS using Hypnotherapy & Counselling

ME and Post Viral Fatigue
The number of people with the symptoms of Myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) is increasing. At present there is little that the medical profession can offer to help with the debilitating symptoms of M.E. and Post Viral Fatigue and the cause is unknown. Sometimes a person can suffer from M.E and Post Viral Fatigue for anything up tot ten years. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy at the Hampshire Hypnotherapy Centre is extremely effective in helping to treat both the emotional and physical difficulties of M.E. and Post Viral Fatigue.

Some of the symptoms of M.E and Post Viral Fatigue are muscle fatigue and being unable to concentrate for any long periods of time. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help the person suffering with the condition to deal with the physical and emotional symptoms of their condition. Aching joints, pain, disturbed sleep, excessive tiredness, inability to concentrate and feelings of exhaustion are all symptoms of M.E. and Post Viral Fatigue.

Although the cause is unknown it is thought probable that M.E and Post Viral Fatigue can develop following an infection or may be triggered by an emotional upset. Often the sufferer develops flu-like symptoms in the first instance and then the symptoms of M.E and Post Viral Fatigue worsen. The symptoms often get worse as the result of stress.

People with M.E and Post Viral Fatigue can find themselves to tired to work or even leave the house in some cases. The physical pain can also be extremely severe and they may begin to have memory loss, which can effect their every day lives making it difficult for them to understand verbal instructions or co-ordinate their limbs. Many become exhausted by even the simplest of activities. Night Sweats or severe shivering are common for many as are problems with balance.
there is also a youtube video link
entitled "ME and PVF cured using Hypnosis".

(I haven't watched it. trading standards?)

https://www.besthypnotherapyandcounselling.co.uk/me-hypnotherapy
 
Sounds like a marketing person's legal trick to me:

"Hypnosis and hypnotherapy at the Hampshire Hypnotherapy Centre is extremely effective in helping to treat both the emotional and physical difficulties of M.E. and Post Viral Fatigue." [ -> Not "to treat", only helping. If I give you a glass of water to swallow your pills I am helping your treatment, too.]

"Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help the person suffering with the condition to deal with the physical and emotional symptoms of their condition." [ -> So, possibly helping with coping? Like resting on a couch, listening to relaxing music and nice affirmative words could help, too?]
 
Not much different from the official BPS stuff, really. Especially the boasting about effectiveness out of nothing. About as much as the difference between the East reformist church of Noodlism and the West reformist church of Noodlism.
 
Seemed to start out OK then gave way to startling misconceptions such as "may be triggered by an emotional upset" and 'tells' like "ME and PVF cured by hypnotherapy".

Seems to my mind to be another example of the "new sympathy" among predatory therapists and some medics. Which amounts to listening to others and then adopting the patients' statements verbatim as a disguise, like a wolf in sheeps' clothing / Angelheart / Hellraiser, to disguise the predator and make them look like something they are not, i.e. they are not genuinely concerned for the patient's welfare and are trying to bamboozle vulnerable patients, who are desperate for a cure and possibly even rendered hypersuggestible by the affects of ME on the nervous system, into denial of their own reality to facilitate payments to the therapist.

Reminds me of LP.
 
Came across their website

there is also a youtube video link
entitled "ME and PVF cured using Hypnosis".

(I haven't watched it. trading standards?)

https://www.besthypnotherapyandcounselling.co.uk/me-hypnotherapy
ASA I think would be the first call
https://www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

https://www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_section/03.html https://www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

Looks like the basis for a complaint would be easily met - though personally I don't currently have enthusiasm for doing it.
 
Seems to my mind to be another example of the "new sympathy" among predatory therapists and some medics. Which amounts to listening to others and then adopting the patients' statements verbatim as a disguise
I don't think this is especially new. There have always been snake oil peddlers, shamans and faith healers of all kinds. They always worked this way. It's all about manipulation and even the BPSers haven't taken it to the level of science, it's still a clumsy art that only works because they have unchecked authority over us.

What's different is that it has been formally adopted as a standard across healthcare. That's not quite new either, this is more of fine-tuning a failed formula when the failure isn't accepted because too many people are enjoying the spoils of zero-effort work that pays very well.

The dark period of "cancer personalities" was just as awful and toxic. It's just that there's never any accountability in medicine. Only compliance.
 
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