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(This blog was originally posted on June 6, 2014)
Some people become very traumatized by their experiences in a war or while fighting a war, Hypnosis Motivation Institute founder John Kappas, Ph.D., observed. “Any time a person goes into an extremely stressful situation, you start to anticipate the stress or danger,” he said. Even though soldiers receive specific combat skills, their survival depends on their ability to fight and kill as well as to deal with the horrors that they have experienced or witnessed on the battlefield: i.e., the fight/flight/freeze response.
Dr. Kappas
warned that whenever a person represses the stress and emotions (e.g., fear,
sadness, anger) experienced during combat, he or she is vulnerable to suffering
“post-war depression” or, as post-traumatic
stress disorder. The Diagnostics
and Statistics Manual V defines PTSD as an extremely complex disorder
that includes psychological as well as physical symptoms of distress. These
include: insomnia, bad dreams or flashbacks of the war experience, explosive
anger, survivor’s guilt and difficulties integrating with or back into society.
Job performance at work may and personal relationships with the spouse/lover,
friends and family may also be negatively affected. Even if the stress is
repressed when the traumatic event occurs, eventually these symptoms surface
and must be dealt with, he warned. “Some guys 20 years out of the Service are
fine and then suddenly break,” the late hypnotherapist warned. “After you
survive in the military/war, if it’s the only thing you know, it can be a shock
to face the real world,” Dr. Kappas said. Treatment for PTSD entails
desensitizing the client to the stress of war and reintegrating the person back
into his or her “old” life, including relationships and work.
On January 1,
2013, I earned a certification to use hypnosis to help people who are
experiencing PTSD to reduce stress and symptoms in order to improve their
quality of life. I use hypnosis, relaxation/breathing and therapeutic
guided imagery techniques to teach these clients how to manage stress. I
also employ cognitive behavioral-therapy techniques and exposure therapy to
help the person separate (un-pair) the association between triggers of fear
about the previous traumatic event and what is going on in their current
environment. Because PTSD is such a complex disorder, I require a referral from
both a licensed medical doctor and a licensed psychotherapist for me to
provide hypnotherapy as a complementary therapy to alleviate, manage and
control these symptoms.
I would like to thank each of the men and women who have risked and continue to risk their lives—and those who have sacrificed their lives—to protect and defend our country. I will not forget you.
*California law allows access by California residents to complementary and alternative health care practitioners who are not providing services that require medical training and credentials. The purpose of a program of hypnotherapy is for vocational and avocational self-improvement (Business and Professions Code 2908) and as an alternative or complementary treatment to healing arts services licensed by the state. A hypnotherapist is not a licensed physician or psychologist, and hypnotherapy services are not licensed by the state of California. Services are non-diagnostic and do not include the practice of medicine, neither should they be considered as a substitute for licensed medical or psychological services or procedures.
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Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in 2005. Sara has been voted the Best Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita, California, four years in a row (2019-2022). For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/
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