Bulimia treated using hypnosis - by Rob Hadley

www.bulimiagirls.com
Bulimia is an oppressive and dibilitating disease. Here you can see an unusual apporach to intervening in the binge purge cycle. For anyone interested in an immediate system to help get over Bulimia see the information here: http://www.vancouverhypnotherapy.org/bn.html

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[iblesstherain]

Fantastic! You should spread the work in North America to more health professionals, perhaps they are just unaware of this treatment success. Does the 10 or 20% that does not improve with hypnotherapy need a different kind of treatment(is so what?) or are they just untreatable?

[vanbc19631963]

At this point theres not many avenues for them. What we do know is that it's anxiety related, if they actually openly talk about it with family and friends it seems to have an immediate positive effect, and that as they age it seems to help. People generally need to be aware that Bulimia, like flu, is not a choice. It is nothing to be ashamed of.

RH

[iblesstherain]

Does this work for everyone you have treated?

In all the people who you have treated for a eating disorder do they all get better from hypnotherapy?

[vanbc19631963]

Does this work for all? Probaby 80%

Do they all get better (improve)? certainly 90% improve and experience fewer binge purge cycles, and far less intense.

It's not a miracle cure and it's not for everyone. I have great success with it, though. One girl quite literallt cried for joy when she ended her bulimic behavior. She was getting engaged, and was wracked with guilt that she hadn't told her fiancee that she was bulimic. She was able to, and cleared it up wonderfully.

[iblesstherain]

Im sure it has potential to help... why is their not any recent studies on it?

WHy do medical professionals who treat eating disorders not recommend hypnotherapy in any of their books or include it in their treatment programs?

[vanbc19631963]

In North America the medical profession is not very swift to embrace hypnotherapy. Fortunately, in Britain it's another story.

The problem is that the medical profession treats the superficial aspects of bulimia. 'Get her to eat and not vomit'. And that doesn't have a lot of success - so they say it's not curable, or not responding to treatment. In fact it's much more simple. One has to remove the cause of the behaviour. Hypnosis does that, very well. The cause is always psychological. RH

[chixalove]

I suffer from bulimia..check out my vid and help me

[vanbc19631963]

Hypnosis is a proven treatment in many anxiety related disorders - which certainly includes bulimia. The British Medical Association published findings arriving at this conclusion in studies in 1892 and more recently in 1955 - these can be found in the British Medical Journal ('Medical use of hypnosis', BMJ, April, 1955).

[iblesstherain]

I have never seen any evidence that this is a proven treatment.

If this REALLY did work then why would the thousands of people with bulimia not use this to treatment. Id hypnotherapy could cure bulimia im sure it would be well known.