Hypnosis can be an effective tool in the early stages of addiction as well as in the recovery and abstinence processes . The early stages of addiction is when you know deep inside yourself, even if you’re not ready to face it, that you’ve really got a problem. Whether you are drinking down your problems with alcohol or using drugs to “feel better”, medicating with prescriptions drugs or eating unhealthy foods to “numb out”, gambling to the extent that it affects your independence or even playing on your X-Box to escape, the question still remains the same… Are you addicted?

This is a question that people who don’t lead a balanced life, or who use escape routes in their day to day life, face all the time. The answer however, can only be answered by the person who’s suffering. As the substance fades into the background, or enough time has elapsed for food to digest, a feeling of somber truth appears, each day comes around and it is honesty that comes to the fore. Are you an addict or not?

Since hypnosis/hypnotherapy helps with the denial aspect of addiction, the client will become more tuned into treatment and less tuned to the barriers of addiction. It is not an easy process to complete addictions therapeutic treatment as it is a multi-layered therapy discipline that requires commitment and lots of practice for the therapy to be affective. If you feel you are addicted and you come to Hypnotherapy Plus, it will be our job to ensure the therapy offered and delivered to you is substantial and may involve a care package which will include counselling, CBT and Hypnosis.

By introducing relaxation therapies such as grounding and mindfulness along with imagery. Hypnosis can help remove physical barriers to recovery, such as the body’s symptoms of withdrawal, anxiety, muscle tension, spasm and pain. Along with reinforcing the commitment to recovery and abstinence.

Video Games Addiction

While the harm in addictions to substances is apparent in physical symptoms, it is often less clear with video game addiction. However, video game addiction can negatively affect a life in the same way a substance addiction can. Those who play for hours each day become withdrawn and isolated, foregoing work, school and other responsibilities to play. Younger addicts often miss out on critical education and important social development, while adults tend to experience deteriorating relationships and problems with their employers.