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Alcohol and Antidressants.

I see a great many clients about the challenges of managing their alcohol intake. For some it is about moderation - for other cessation is the only option. The therapies I provide can either reduce or eliminate their use of alcohol. A disturbing trend over recent months has been developing. I see an increasing number of people who are by any definition alcoholic and who have been prescribed antidepressants by their doctors. Some antidepressants come with a warning against using alcohol while on antidepressants, though by no means all. Nonetheless, there is widespread knowledge and reports of interaction between most SSRI antidepressants and alcohol; and yet medical professionals still prescribe them to patients who make no secret of the fact that they are alcoholic. These patients are not going to simply not drink. They often drink because they are unable to stop. Simply being on antidepressants is not by any stretch of the imagination going to change this. And yet the known interacti

Fear of Flying

When we work using regression we regularly see the most extraordinary results very swiftly. Suddenly things become plain to the client and they understand why something happened. Subsequently their ability to manage their issue becomes very much more easily understood. Dave Elmans book, Hypnotherapy provides a good roadmap for anyone using regression generally to manage an issue. However the pattern occasionally swings out of the norm. Typically an incident in the recent past is associated with an incident in the clients’ early life that had traumatic elements and introduced stress and anxiety. By reframing the earlier incident the issue in the recent past is resolved – and future occurrences defused. This is not an unfamiliar process to most hypnotherapists. A client saw me recently about a fear of flying that put a rather unusual twist on regression. The client has been growing increasingly distressed with air travel. Recently he felt overwhelming anxiety on a plane heading to the ea