Have you ever been hypnotised?

[Emergency Lalla Ward Ten]

In a clinical/therapeutic sense, I mean, rather than being made to squark like a chicken or whatever.

What was it like? Is it true that you remain completely conscious of what you're doing throughout? So what stops you saying 'Hang on, I'm being hypnotised, this is bullshit' (much like one might do while trying to meditate) and the session not working?

Can you use it as a panacea to blitz all your anxieties and phobias in one go? Or is that hypnotherapy myth number one?

And how much did you pay?

[Gazeuse]

In a clinical/therapeutic sense, I mean, rather than being made to squark like a chicken or whatever.

What was it like? Is it true that you remain completely conscious of what you're doing throughout? So what stops you saying 'Hang on, I'm being hypnotised, this is bullshit' (much like one might do while trying to meditate) and the session not working?

Can you use it as a panacea to blitz all your anxieties and phobias in one go? Or is that hypnotherapy myth number one?

And how much did you pay?

No and I never will.

[Incredible Monkey Doctor]

Can you use it as a panacea to blitz all your anxieties and phobias in one go? Or is that hypnotherapy myth number one?

I've had no personal experience, but one of my former colleagues ( a slightly dim girl, it's true) did a hypnotheray session in conjunction with something at London Zoo to cure her arachnophobia and it worked for her.

[Bogey]

No, but I would do it.
What are the worries?

[El Unicornio, mang]

My mum knew a guy who went to a show and the hypnotist told him he was Billy the Kid. Unfortunately, he was unable to snap him out of it and he ended up in a mental hospital. My mum went to some charity thing there and she had to dance with him, he was wearing a cowboy hat and had plastic guns on a belt. Very weird.

[Smackhead Kangaroo]

Bah phobias are generally VERY easy to treat just by continued exposure. That hypnotherapy managed it is no big feat.

[TOCMFIC]

I'm not very susceptible. I've had people try, but my brain is always there going "Are you supposed to do what they ask? Or do I just go along with it for a laugh?" I overanalyse it.