Posted by Dinah on July 18, 2008, at 12:33:37
In reply to But now he thinks I'm an addict. Very long. Sorry., posted by Dinah on July 16, 2008, at 23:03:14
He actually googled sexual anorexia after I called and asked him to. I must admit I was stunned. I fully expected him to have forgotten, and printed out the information to bring with me. The first thing out of his mouth was that I was right, that was definitely not what he meant. And we both reflected on how much had changed that I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he hadn't meant that at all.
He's agreed to stop speaking of sexual addiction, although he didn't agree to stop thinking of it. But we'll address it as a more general problem.
He ok'd adjunct hypnotherapy.
And I've arranged an initial appointment with a hypnotherapist who says she has had success with OCD patients on substituting obsessions, and was also experienced with dissociation. She didn't seem all that confident or excited, although it sounds as if she's done this for a while. I'm willing to give it a shot.
It does seem to me though, that a key component of hypnotherapy would be the confidence of its practitioner...
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