Maybe this is not the right place to ask, but there are quite a few people here with knowledge about hypnosis.
A person in my family has come down with Alzheimer and it turns out very difficult to get her to do or not to do certain things. This is particularly important because she also caught Covid.
So I am wondering whether hypnosis could be of any help here.
Oh! That's a very interesting topic!
Apparently, it depends on the ways hypnosis works, and, apparently, nobody knows it. So, I think, only the real life test can answer your question.
I have dealt with my mother-in-law who had dementia for 6 years, before she died, and they do not really have the concentration to listen to hypnosis.
I will say, music, which affects a different part of the brain, does seem to help dementia patients. Look that the Lady Gaga/ Tony Bennett concert that was broadcast on US CBS on TV. He remembered Lady Gaga's name even though he could not remember it before - it was the music.
Maybe music with embedded hypnosis - not sure.
(This post was last modified: 24 Dec 2021, 17:03 by Like Ra.)
Of course it will depend on how far the dementia has advanced.
In this case:
Short term memory: mostly gone.
Sense of where she is: Still OK in the morning, gone in the evening.
Being in a lesser known place without one of her best known family members: panic.
Logic: still working.
Still commands the languages she has learned.
She can, with great difficulty, still be convinced of some things, but then only for a while. Like that she has Covid, but often keeps forgetting what that implies.
Sleeps OK, but with the aid of light sleeping pills.
Hence I think that some things might still be possible here, provided one has the proper techniques. Unfortunately I don't know how to make hypnosis files, or I would try it out myself.
And assuming that it would work to some extend, where to find good files?
Truth be told, and I’m no medical expert or hypnosis expert but I really do t think l hypnosis would work with Alzheimer’s even if only for the fact that logistically getting your family member to sit down, focus and relax to a hypnosis file seems.. difficult.