Most problem drinkers don't have a problem with alcohol.
A Wellington Hypnotherapy we believe that binge drinkers have a problem with something else and they try to manage it by using alcohol. What they are suffering is actually the side effects of self medication. A psychological problem needs a psychological solution. Dealing with the underlying problem will automatically deal with the drinking.
Hypnosis has been used successfully with problem drinkers. The treatment depends on why the person is drinking. Alcohol abuse is the same as other substance abuse. There can be many underlying reasons for it. But it can usually be helped.

 

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Some people have low self esteem and hate themself.

They just want to shut down the little voice that tells them they are no good, they just want to feel normal, like everybody else, even just for half an hour, and the drink does that, for a while.

 

Some people binge because they feel bad. The drink makes them feel good until the next day, when they feel bad for bingeing: and they save up the bad feelings until their next binge.

 

Some people have never learned to cope with life's problems.

They believe that they cannot function without a drink:

to give them confidence, to face up to other people. Some people believe that others are judging them, that they will not be accepted, and drinking cuts shuts down those thoughts, that fear of social situations.

 

Some people have formed a habit of drinking equals relaxing, and the association is so strong they cannot imagine relaxing without a drink.

 

Some people use drink to reward themselves. Then they they cannot stop drinking because the reward is associated with finishing: the day, the job, everything.

 

Many many reasons. Each unique.

 

RATIONALE

There is a strong psychological element to most problem drinking. Hypnotherapy will help with the root causes, but the results will not be instant and it may take several sessions to discover why the person needs to drink and to correct it. It also needs the cooperation of the person.

 

PROCEDURE

The normal procedure is to establish what the drinking pattern is, what triggers it, when it happens. This will guide the therapy.

Many people do not connect their drinking with feeling bad or uncertain about themselves and are quite surprised when that is found to be the cause.

Whatever the symptoms, the basic therapy is to find and correct the underlying emotions, what it is that the drink is being used to deal with.

This is normally done in one or more sessions of Metaformation Technique, in which the person becomes aware of how their mind is representing their problem, and then changes that representation. Changing how the mind represents the problem destroys what is causing the problem.

 

RESULTS

Most forms of alcohol abuse will respond well to hypnotherapy and the published results suggest that 75% or more of alcoholics are still sober twelve months after ending therapy. Drinkers who are not actually alcohol dependent but have other alcohol related problems such as binge drinking or anger problems usually have an even higher rate of recovery.

 

 

 

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