Ive been having Hypnotherapy/NLP for my anxiety disorder for about two months and about 5 sessions.
My last session yesterday frustrated my therapist as I kept breaking the state whenever we tried to do some work. (this was NLP not hypnosis so I was not in a trance). He was trying to do something by unhooking negative emotions from me by getting me to remember them but for some reason I couldn't tune into them.
He also made the comment that part of me doesnt want to get better and is jeapourdising my progress. Next week he said we will try and discover that.
Just before I left he asked me to picture myself as Im feeling now, I described myself wearing dull clothes, anxious, feeling uncomfortable. Then he asked me to picture myself when I felt fine and happy, I chose 2003/04. I pictured myself wearing different coloured clothes, brighter, a different girl in the picture to my current g/friend and there was my college from that year. This immediately made me smile and the tension eased.
I do not have any of that now as I dress how my mood is and I quit college because of my anxiety and obviously the girl is different
This has left me confused as to whether it is something deep down that is keeping my anxiety going or that material things in my life have changed or me thinking about my anxiety is keeping it going.
He said I was worrying him a little and I'd been on his mind a lot about different techniques we should try.
Theres no doubt in my mind that me worrying and stressing over my relationship made me ill again but I dont really want to have to end it so I can get better.
So confused.........