I have and it’s still traumatizing.

By whom?

I’ll tell you some other time I don’t want to get into it.

Maybe I shouldn’t go down this path 🤔

Licensed hypnotists have to take continuing education in ethics courses. Not all of them keep up with that and it can be A Problem. Especially if they’re just generally not great people to begin with. So yeah, someone without a good moral compass could try to take some liberties and it’s not pleasant. Especially when they think they can “fix” someone like a mental illness or painful memories.

Are you saying I have a mental illness? Because that’s what I’m saying.

I inferred it. ;) But I do, and someone thought they could do something about that and that person is a fucking psycho.

I’ve never been hypnotized myself but, despite my generally skeptical outlook, I think it’s legit. I know a licensed hypnotist whom I trust. One thing is that people vary widely in their degree of susceptibility.

Who licenses the hypnotists?

Here’s an article about it. https://hypnosistrainingacademy.com/do-you-need-a-license-to-practice-hypnosis/

“Licensed” may be the wrong term. She is “certified” by these folks https://new.ngh.net

I don’t know who the person I dealt with was “certified” or “licensed” with. The whole thing was very shady. I don’t trust the whole scene.

I think that’s reasonable. I don’t trust the whole scene either, just this one person.

I had a 3 month psych rotation when I was in nurses training. One of the psych instructors tried hypnotizing several of us student nurses - it was not successful

He was unable to hypnotize us

I think it definitely takes a special kind set of people for it