Can Hypnosis Help Aspergers Syndrome
Can Hypnosis Help Aspergers Syndrome? Mothers with an autistic child, suffer as much stress on a daily basis as a combat soldier. This is much more than mothers of other disabled children. The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders confirms this information. The constant fear and worry of caring for someone on the autistic spectrum is relentless. They face an ongoing struggle to make people understand their child even though at times they find it hard to cope and understand themselves. Autism can’t be seen, so it isn’t easy for others to grasp. Plus, ignorance still exists. This is despite the rising numbers on the spectrum. Many do not know how to deal with or understand the impact it has on those affected.
The Research
Research has failed to come up with answers to the cause of this sharp rise in numbers. However, a genetic vulnerability seems likely due to environmental factors. Families assume advice will be there once a diagnosis is given. Sadly, this is not the case. Support and advice do not exist at worst and is sporadic at best. The medical staff know little about it. Indeed, the Education Department cannot cope with the demand for autism units. As a result, the child has to muddle on, often missing out on academic education as their specific needs go unaddressed.
Less than 22% of teachers have had basic autism training says a National Autistic Society study. Further down the line colleges offer ‘life skill’ courses which do little to help them find work. People with autism only make up about 13% of those in work. Whereas, 50% of learning disabled have a job. However, this has nothing to do with their ability to work. Yet keeping a job is where the problem arises. as employers don’t understand autism. They often don’t get past the interview stage or due to the many myths around autism that people believe.
Can Hypnosis help Aspergers Syndrome?
For those with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) or High Functioning Autism (HFA) life can be very hard. AS is a communication and socialisation disorder and does not go hand in hand with a learning disability. This means they are aware of their issues. This can lead to depression, low self-esteem and lack of confidence. They struggle to make themselves fit into a society that just thinks they are ‘odd’. Others assume they are learning disabled.
Our aim is to offer a service which will be seen as an effective, simple and low-cost solution. It will help the everyday challenges AS individuals and their families face.
Our programme offers multiple treatments. Moreover, it is designed to enhance any social skill deficits. These have an impact on their well-being and pose as barriers to them living a full life.
How Can Hypnosis Help Aspergers Syndrome
Hypnosis can alter symptoms through physical relaxation and cause a heightened state of awareness. This will narrow and intensify a focus of concentration and perception while diminishing awareness of peripheral stimuli.
AS find everyday life hard as they have an overload of senses. Whereas, others can ‘blank out’, focusing on only what is immediately important. The AS cannot decide what should take priority which causes the ongoing stress and anxiety to manifest.
Anxiety builds up due to external or internal sensory stimuli in the brain. This can lead to temper outbursts, anger, pacing, agitation etc which then creates stress. This behaviour isn’t acceptable in society and can lead to alienation and enforced loneliness.
How Hypnosis Can Help
By using hypnosis in this way it will also have a positive impact on other areas in their lives. It can boost confidence, raise self-esteem, adapt bad behaviours, aid insomnia, banish feelings of low self-worth and deal with depression. This list is by no means endless as each person will present with their own unique set of issues. Indeed, they will be dealt with on a one to one basis.
AS often have a discrepancy in their language skills. They may have adequate language but can lack good conversational skills which impact on their social and emotional development. This leads to isolation in their home life and school and work-life with no practical real-life ‘hands-on’ experiences. They find it hard to cope with natural, unplanned events which happen in real life every day. They often don’t know how to articulate through speech what is in their mind. This needs a great deal of understanding and patience which we can provide using our own personal experiences and skills.
How Are Families Affected?
Families living with AS can be affected by the challenges of coping with their loved one. They may feel guilt, stress, worry, anger, inadequacy, despair, – the list is endless. Hence, they too can benefit from hypnosis and stress management.
Sadly, families are often ignored and expected to cope on their own. This can have a negative effect on their mental well-being. The divorce rate is 60% higher than the national average amongst parents with an autistic child. As many as 1 in 3 become single-parent families. The stress of living with autism becomes too much to bear. This results in the carer (normally the mother) being unable to work or only working part-time around their child’s needs.
The Numbers
Unemployment is high with national figures showing 70% of carers are not in work. Also, only 11% are able to work full time. Sadly, having a restricted income just adds to the daily stress of living with autism. Also, siblings often suffer too. Autism also has an impact on everyday life. Many forego holidays and family days out when their autistic sibling cannot cope. This can lead to resentment then guilt and they too would benefit from the therapies we offer.
We can give the parents and carers the tools and techniques to manage their stress. This will improve their mental well-being. Also, it will enable them to cope better with the daily challenges of living with autism. The person with AS or HFA too will benefit greatly from these therapies. It will address their individual needs and enable them to lead a more fulfilling life.
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18 Comments
King-Galaxius Stravinsky
May 24, 2014Wow. I am totally amazed about this. I have read about so much stuff over the years about soooooooo many things. Have you seen that movie with Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton? Well, this one movie in particular is about some people of variousbackgrounds, who get together to form and win a gospel competition.
To continue, in this movie, Queen Latifah’s character has a son with Asberger’s. From what I’ve seen in movies about people with Asberger’s, it seems like their minds are like movie soundtracks where the music does not stop. Or, a record player that doesn’t stop playing.
I wonder if that is true. If it is, that is a nightmare. I don’t know if this is true or not but I heard that diseases like these are incurable. And, people with AAutism, Asberger’s, etc. are treated with pills. It seems like there are pills for everything!
That, too is horrible. Maybe hypnosis is one way to combat pill usage.
Yvonne Daly
May 25, 2014Hey, Thanks for your comments. Fortunately not all people with Asperger’s are on medication. You see, it is not a disease – you can’t catch it – it’s just a different way of thinking and seeing the world around us. Many people with Asperger’s are highly intelligent and have made real differences in the world. Think of Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Mozart, Andy Warhol and Bill Gates, these are just a few of those suspected of having Asperger’s. These people have made positive contributions to the world as they are often able to ‘think outside the box’ and don’t always conform like the rest of us. Unfortunately many people with Asperger’s experience high anxiety which can manifest in many different ways which often make up the traits associated with Asperger’s. We have found that using hypnosis and other alternative therapies have a positive affect and can alleviate many of these traits without resorting to prescriptive drugs and the accompanying side effects that often go with them.
Hannah
May 26, 2014We are lucky in the UK that if our children have Aspergers or Autism we receive government benefits to help ease the cost of raising a child on the spectrum. Getting them statemented is another issue that I won’t go into here. Hypnosis sounds logical with what I know of the Spectrum.
Yvonne Daly
May 27, 2014Hi Hannah. Yes many parents are unable to work because of their caring commitments and many people with Autism are able to work but don’t get the opportunity to due to the lack of awareness and employers assuming they will have to spend a whole load of money adapting their workplace. We go into companies and show them that ‘reasonable adjustments’ that can be made cost little or no money, just a common sense approach as we find the biggest barrier is ignorance as to what Autism and Asperger’s actually is and how it impacts on the individual. Unfortunately the new benefit replacing DLA is very unsympathetic to those with Autism and it appears many will lose their entitlement. The questions are geared mainly towards physical disabilities and how that impacts on their day to day living. It does not address the behavioural and psychological issues many with Autism experience. Autism is not an illness and therefore many rarely have to see their GP so unless they sign up for therapy sessions like the ones we offer then they will have to state they receive no therapy interventions and therefore will not be entitled to additional financial help.
Aspie
May 28, 2014I have a lot of trouble being hypnotized. I’m not sure if it’s my condition or if I’m just not easily hypnotized. I do find it’s easier to go under when I’m working one on one is with a professional rather than in a group.
Terry
May 28, 2014I really think it can help for the social problems kids with aspergers has. I wouldn’t say it will actually get them to stop with their problems, but I really think hypnosis can help those who suffer from aspergers to accept themselves and not worry about anyone who wants to hurt their feelings.
Raymond
May 30, 2014My 15 y/o daughter is high functioning Asperger’s Syndrome and hypnotherapy has worked well for her. From observing her behavior, I can say it’s brought about an attitude of independence and mastery in coping within her.
Drew
June 1, 2014I am 22 and have Asperger’s. I’ve used hypnotherapy for confidence and to help me expand my diet as my food choices were very restrictive. It has made me feel calmer and I don’t get as agitated as I used to and can control my anger better, thinking it through rather than flying off the handle at the least thing. The relaxation techniques have been very beneficial during exams and job interviews.
Dani
June 1, 2014Aspergers is a condition I see being helped by hypnosis, but not curing it or anything like that. I really think it’d be great to help get kids and adults with aspergers out of their comfort zone by doing hypnosis, but I doubt they’ll fully change the way they think, so you have to use hypnosis into a direction that’ll help, if that makes any sense.
Drew
June 3, 2014I know I will always have Asperger’s as there is no known cure but hypnosis has given me some techniques and strategies to help me cope with it better and feel more positive. I feel much more calmer as I used to get stressed trying to ‘fit in’ which just alienated people further away from me. I’m much more relaxed about it all and realise I should just be myself and accept people will like me for who I am and not who I am trying to be.
Amy Hamilton
June 8, 2014The idea is I can see that it could help kids with aspergers actually talk to other kids. It may not stop kids from acting out, but it may make them comfortable enough to actually go out and talk to other kids, maybe make friends. Hopefully to the point where they wont worry so much about what other kids say.
Mark Pliskin
June 12, 2014My son has Aspergers, but I think it makes him special. I wouldn’t want him to change too much, maybe just to change in a way of making him more social and less scared in school and such. I dealt with school problems back in my day and I wouldn’t want my son to deal with it either.
Greg Jackson
June 13, 2014It is an interesting thing to think about, to be able to actually get a child who suffers from Aspergers or Autism to be comfortable with whom they are and not worry about bullies and hate from other kids. It’s not going to be easy, but I really and truly believe that hypnotherapy can help in some way.
Maggie West
June 15, 2014I have a cousin who has just been diagnosed with Aspergers and he acts up a lot, always gets into serious fits if he doesn’t get his way or if he’s too stressed out. If hypnosis can really help him overcome said problems, I’d be happy to suggest it to my family and see what they think.
Jeremy
June 15, 2014I am truly interested in this subject. Aspergers and Autism are starting to show up in kids more often these days because doctors actually look into it these days. I know how kids with such problems act, and it’s hard to handle sometimes. I don’t have kids with either, but I know family and friends who have children with one or the other and they have to deal with so much. It’s hard and I truly wonder if hypnosis can be of help to calm kids down.
Steve M
June 18, 2014Hypnosis has certainly helped my 16 yr old son with his meltdowns. We were at our wits end and his mother could not cope with him especially when he was regularly suspended from school. He also attack his older sister physically and verbally calling her the most horrendous names. Afterwards when he calmed down he would show remorse but this was short lived as the least thing could set him off again. He just seemed to have no control over his temper going from 0 – 60 in seconds. We don’t believe in medication as that only masks the problems and the long term effects and side effects scared us. A friend suggested alternative therapies and although we were dubious at first we decided to give it a go. We couldn’t find a suitable therapist who understood autism locally but eventually found one 3 hours drive away. It has made such a difference to all our lives as he is so much calmer and in control of his own feelings. Best of all he enjoys going and we treat it as a family day out now. It has saved our sanity and our marriage and his sister isn’t afraid to invite friends over now for fear of him exploding and embarrassing her. This is a much safer alternative to drugs and much more cost effective in the long run.
Mnedy Donoho
August 26, 2017I think I have contacted you in the past, but we could not link up for some reason. I asked for tapes to help my son at home he is high functioning living with Asperger’s. He has Severe anxiety and stress, low self steam, no confidence in himself. He also has slow processing with only may the anxiety and stress worse. I have finally got the school to realize slow processing is a real thing, but I would like the tapes to help is anxiety and stress and confidence. I think they were 300.00 but I lost the email. If you can help please let me know. We live in the USA and I am on disability so I didn’t have the money before he needs the help so I will find it. I do believe that is the only answer for him to have a normal life.
Biodun
October 10, 2017Yes sure feel free to get in touch should you want to proceed