Hi there.
I've done a lot of work on my mental health (including therapy), for the past decade, with the past couple of years a veritable frenzy of self-discovery. It's been a long and painful process, getting to (near), the bottom of things and I do feel I understand myself and my behaviour much more now. I've also been able to let go of a huge amount of the agonising anxiety and self-loathing around my issues with my parents, resulting in a more balanced, compassionate and ultimately less volatile me.
(I have issues relating to being the scapegoat of a narc mother and having attatchment disorder and some seriously faulty wiring).
A painful realisation of this year has been that understanding why something happens doesn't stop me doing it, necessarily.
Anyway, in the past I had CBT, which did help a lot with the situation I was in then, but wasn't the right fit for what I'm wanting to do now. After yet another social occasion where I got so worked up about it that I drank too much and acted like an idiot (thus meaning I beat myself up for weeks afterwards, avoid people - often cutting them out of my life altogether, and am ashamed forever), I thought that perhaps hypnotherapy might help me create a more adult 'voice' and way of being.
I am starting on the 4th with a hypnotherapist who I absolutely feel 'gets' me and what I want to achieve and who has given me some breathing exercises in the meantime.
I wondered if anyone else had tried this?