Jonny
03-11-2010, 08:35 AM
Hey folks, can hypnosis help treat Borderline Personality Disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder)? Thanks :)
Before I answer your question,
a warning:
BPD is a legal medical diagnosis. In the U.S. it is illegal for a hypnotist to treat someone with BPD unless that person was referred to the hypnotist by a licensed medical professional.
some information:
BPD is a medical psychological diagnosis. It should only be treaded by a licensed doctor, psychiatrist, or psychologist. BPD is not a single thing. Rather, it is a term used for insurance purposes to define a wide variety of symptoms and causes. Each person with BPD may present dramatically different symptoms even though he or she is still diagnosed with BPD. A hypnotist would not treat BPD, he or she would focus on treating the symptoms and perhaps the causes of the symptoms. Working with a person with a variety of symptoms means that the work done by a hypnotist and a client is unique and specific to each client.
In direct answer to your question:
No. Hypnosis cannot treat BPD. However, hypnotherapy--what a trained and experienced hypnotherapist does after leading a client into a hypnotic trance—can help by replacing unwanted behaviors with desired ones and eliminating the emotional causes of the unwanted behaviors.