Posted by deniseuk190466 on September 6, 2006, at 13:35:04
In reply to Re: Forgot to mention.denise..., posted by Meri-Tuuli on September 5, 2006, at 9:12:31
Hi Meri,
I think the problem is that like another poster said, they tend to just do their job, go to the seminars and know the text book stuff but when it comes to really asking questions and going any further they either don't have the time or are not that interested in finding out because their need is not so great.
I'm pleased that you get some help from your herbalist but I have to say I have very little faith in many alternative therapies based on my own experiences.
With this particular episode, when it first started, my mum encouraged me to go and see a hypnotherapist and admittedly to humour her I went along. Every session the guy would say "if this doesn't work I'll eat my hat" and at the end of the 14 sessions I really felt like saying "well either eat your hat or give me my money back". I think hypnotherapy only works for people who are suggestable.
When I was about 22 and didn't realise I was suffering from depression but just thought I was ill my mum took me to see a homeopathist, she presecribed this liquid which was the bark of some tree, I took it in the prescribed manner and it did nothing, fortunately about a year after I was prescribed prothiaden/doxepin a tricyclic and even though I didn't think it would help as as far as I was concerned I was not depressed it changed my life so much for the better. The tree bark was a joke!
I am very cynical when it comes to alternative therapies because I have to admit I think most of them are money making rackets, and maybe in some cases the intentions are good but they mostly rely on the suggestibility of the people receiving the treatments (which is not a bad thing) but I'm not suggestable. If something is to work then as far as I'm concerned if something is to work then it should work on it's own merits and should not rely on my either wanting it to work or believing it will work.
Denise
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