BY TASNEEM ABRAHAMS
28 Nov, 2016

The first step in treating dermatillomania, like any other psychological disorder, is to acknowledge thet there is a problem and that you need help to address it. Research on treatment of dermatillomania and other body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) is limited. Although there is no definitive cure, there are a lot of treatment options recommended. Some may not work for you as much as they work for others. The trick is to find something that helps reduce your urge to pull. In this post we will discuss hypnotherapy as a treatment option.

What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is a two way process between the therapist and the client, a professional partnership. People cannot be hypnotised unless he or she agrees and co-operates. What hypnotherapists do is, by definition, therapeutic. Stage hypnosis is very different and is considered as a form of entertainment.

Hypnotherapy is considered a type of corresponding treatment that uses the force of positive suggestions to achieve intuitive change to our thoughts, emotions and behaviour. The procedure itself plans to adjust our state of cognizance in a way that relaxes the conscious part of the mind while simultaneously stimulating and focussing the intuitive part. This uplifted state of mindfulness - achieved using skilled relaxation techniques - allows the advisor to then make appropriate suggestions. The efficacy of hypnosis is based on how much you want the result.

Hypnotherapy can free an individual from toxic practices. Hypnotherapy will lead individuals toward recuperating the uncertain issues that have been bothering them their entire lives. Most people during early youth are confronted with repulsive circumstances and after that reach subliminal conclusions about themselves because of a childish mind-set.  You additionally make decisions about how to behave which appear to be great at the time, yet now are overcoming you. These youth choices are so profoundly shrouded that only through the depth of hypnotherapy, would they be able to be discovered and treated.

Hypnosis can:

  • Turn the picking hand into an automatic soothing device
  • Protection from the impact of triggering stressors
  • Make habits that have felt automatic controllable
  • Enhance relaxation techniques
  • Increase mindfulness
  • Identify and diffuse historical picking or pulling triggers
  • Help you feel things in the heart, not the hair or skin