EFT on severe mental illness

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Using EFT on Paranoid Schizophrenia

 

Hi Everyone,

 

There is a BIG message within this article that I am hoping will get the

attention of some of our " hesitant skeptic " friends within the medical and

psychiatric communities.

 

In conventional circles, Paranoid Schizophrenia is a difficult to treat

psychotic ailment and rarely, if ever, responds after one treatment. This

message provides a glowing exception to this wherein EFT and another energy

related procedure (Frontal Eminences from Applied Kinesiology) resulted in a

dramatic improvement after just one lengthy session (about 5 hours) .

 

EFT Contributing Editor Tam Llewellyn-Edwards from the UK gives frequent EFT

workshops. One of his students, Francesca Hamon applied these energy

procedures to " Richard " for his long term Paranoid Schizophrenia. The

results, while not providing the " across the board instant cure " that some

people erroneously expect with these procedures, were impressive. Francesca

did several followups spanning 8 weeks. After the first week she reports as

follows...

 

" After one week: Richard had been outside alone and had only needed to shout

once or twice each time instead of the 25-30 times he did before. "

 

I discussed this result with two experienced psychiatrists and both

considered it extraordinary. Here is Francesca's article...complete with

the details of the session.

 

Hugs, Gary

 

P.S. There have been other favorable reports on using energy related

procedures with psychotic issues--a few of which you will find on our web

site.

 

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By Francesca Hamon

 

The Situation

 

I am a nutritional and energy therapist in London with training in EFT and

another energy therapy (called Frontal Eminences which I learned from

Applied Kinesiology). Although I don't usually treat people with

schizophrenia, I recently had the opportunity to help " Richard, " whom I have

known for many years.

 

Richard lives alone in a different town from me so my session took most of

one day with him. I concentrated on issues that he and his family said made

it difficult for him to live in the community.

 

He has had paranoid schizophrenic symptoms for the last 17 years. In his

late teens he saw a psychiatrist who gave him drugs for anxiety and

'schizophrenic tendencies'. Subsequently his condition got worse and he

developed deep paranoia and had some severe psychotic episodes over the next

few years.

 

 

When I saw him he was agoraphobic and alcohol-dependent. Sometimes he could

go outside alone but it was extremely frightening for him. Most days he

could only leave his flat by taxi.

 

He was tormented every moment of the day by terrifying thoughts, voices in

his head and memories of past abuse. Some of this was real and some was

imagined.

 

When he does go outside, he shouts aggressively (which is frightening for

other people). He has never intentionally hurt anyone but he has often

smashed inanimate objects, including other people's belongings.

 

He has been on various drug regimes since the early 1980s. Currently he is

taking a benzodiazepine, a tricyclic anti-depressant and two neuroleptics,

plus some procyclidine to manage the side-effects from the neuroleptics.

 

Important Note: There was no change in his medication from the time of our

session through the 8 week followup that appears at the end of this article.

 

 

The Session

 

After talking generally to establish rapport, we discussed the feelings

Richard gets when he shouts in the street. He said he feels 'terrified,

humiliated and fearful' before he shouts. He expects someone to knife him

but he has to shout because God requires it. He searches for the courage to

do it and shouts loudly '25 or 30 times'. He rated his emotional intensity

for shouting at 10+.

 

 

We talked about the feelings that made him shout in the street and this

helped me understand the aspects involved. Many of his 'memories' had not

actually happened but he believed they had.

 

First, I used my other energy technique more globally on several aspects of

his shouting in the street. This lowered his intensity to 6+. Then we

talked about the remaining aspects wherein I learned that he felt very

guilty for stabbing a child. I used the basic EFT formula with the 9 gamut

procedure on this.

 

The set-up phrase we used was: 'Even though I feel really bad because I

stabbed a child, I believe God loves me anyway'.

 

It took ten minutes to find this phrase. He couldn't say 'I deeply and

completely accept myself' because not accepting himself is a big part of his

problem. It was too painful to say 'I know God loves me'. However, saying

'I believe God loves me' was okay because he said he wants to believe God

loves him.

 

He needed prompting for each section of the phrase. He said it slightly

different each time and added the 'anyway' onto the end.

 

After two rounds of EFT on 'stabbing a child', his intensity was down to 3+.

He was exhausted and wanted to stop. After 15 minutes more of other

meridian work on stabbing a child, his intensity came down to a 2+.

 

After 15 minutes, we did the 'Floor to Ceiling' technique, which brought his

emotional intensity right down to 0. He said he felt cleansed and calmer but

still exhausted. Then I did half an hour of other meridian work globally on

his memory of being locked in a cupboard.

 

Finally, I gave him some nutritional advice and used another energy therapy

on noises that made him perform obsessive compulsive rituals.

 

Richard's illness makes it more complex to locate every aspect of a problem.

Even so, I felt the session had gone very well. At the end, his intensity

levels for everything we had dealt with were at 0. He felt his mind had

been healed and he didn't think he would have any more problems. Then he

said 'This result will hold up as long as I behave myself. If I don't, it

could go back to a 3'. This showed there were still some aspects to clear

up.

 

Follow-Up:

 

 

After one week: Richard had been outside alone and had only needed to shout

once or twice each time instead of the 25-30 times he did before. He was

calmer and hadn't had any psychotic episodes. He believed his mind had been

healed. He sounded more positive and balanced than when I had spoken to him

by phone before the session. Surprisingly, his agoraphobia had reduced a

bit. (I'd decided not to treat this in the first session in case he went

outside more often with some of his abusive behaviour still there).

 

After two weeks: he still seemed more balanced and more positive than before

the treatment. He was looking forward to recovering from his illness and his

plans were more practical and self-aware than I'd expected.

 

After three weeks: the agoraphobia (which I hadn't treated) had come back

but the other positive changes were still in place and he still believed his

mind had been healed.

 

After eight weeks: the positive effects have stayed with him. There is a lot

more work to do but after just one session he is calmer, more self-accepting

and more in control of his life.

 

Francesca Hamon

 

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