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Sorry ladies posting here for attention as am desperate

Has anyone tried hypnosis on their child?
My 8year old is an anxious child, so much so that he wet the bed on Christmas Eve at the thought of hearing Santa coming to leave presents. I am thinking of trying hypnosis to help him.

If think the official term is paediatric hypnosis.

Probably better trying to get to the bottom of his anxiety and dealing with that than hypnotherapy tbh.
Have you spoken to any health care professionals?

Not tried hypnosis. However my child is a simular age and very anxious. Wears pull ups at night as not dry. Being assessed for ASD. Huge problems with sleep anxiety and has had concerned about santa being in house in past years but we always give option of where to put stocking. Ie in room or in hall if prefer santa not to enter room. This has helped.
We have medication for sleep from specialist which has helped so much as prior to this nighttime anxiety would build and stop child being able to sleep.
Really need to look into cause of anxiety. Ask GP for a referal.

Yes - and it worked fantastically. Removed anxiety about medical procedures and phobia of dogs. Not cheap but worth every penny.

Hey

Anxious child here too, not incontinent but does get very anxious before bed. You really need to find out what is causing the anxiety first before you try hypnosis.

Not tried hypnosis. However my child is a simular age and very anxious. Wears pull ups at night as not dry. Being assessed for ASD. Huge problems with sleep anxiety and has had concerned about santa being in house in past years but we always give option of where to put stocking. Ie in room or in hall if prefer santa not to enter room. This has helped.
We have medication for sleep from specialist which has helped so much as prior to this nighttime anxiety would build and stop child being able to sleep.
Really need to look into cause of anxiety. Ask GP for a referal.

Genuine question. Would it not have made sense to tell the child that Santa isn’t real and therefore he doesn’t need to be anxious about a jolly fat man in red coming into his bedroom?

CBT has a better evidence base for dc that age.

Oh bless her!
Have you spoken to the gp?
Hypnosis or other treatment you should be able to get it on the nhs and go to an accredited professional who they can advise whose best. They might suggest speaking to someone first to try to get to the root of the problem which she may not understand herself yet.

I hope you get it sorted soon OP.

My 8yp was referred for CBT and it was amazing, I massively recommend, though waiting lists are awful. If you can possibly go private do it.

Victoria sponge

Yes we could of done this but child also loves the idea of santa and wants to believe in the magic. Just finds the whole build up too much so we follow childs lead and child was worried about santa in room but still wanted santa to visit. We have said we can get presents delivered other way but child wants santa to come. We handled it in a way which gave the child the control of how and where santa could go. This made child less anxious and still able to participate and enjoy the christmas stuff like their peers

Hi, this is definitely an issue that hypnotherapy could help. I say that as a qualified hypnotherapist and am aware of similar cases, which generally have been resolved easily.

If you are interested in more information, please message me.
I might be able to point you in the right direction - have someone in mind.

Regards, James

Would it help to tell him Santa isnt real this year? He’s at the age now.

But I’m sure that’s just one example, maybe focus on the anxiety and also speak to your gp to see if he has a continence issue.

Do you know what’s caused his anxiety? I do believe that it’s worth addressing every cause individually as well as seeking help. So using Santa as an example as you did, telling him Santa wasn’t real may have been better than letting him get so anxious. Maybe to habe said Santa doesn’t come anymore after the age of seven and presents are left from mummy and daddy. Santa tells them what to get.

And try to address every situation that makes him anxious and remove the cause of it.

My son is autistic and in the rough years when he was horribly anxious, I used to rock him to sleep using Beethoven specifically piano concerto no 5.

I also tried hypnosis and mindfulness apps

Also a massage