01/04/2020
I worked with John for 15 weeks. John was an African American diagnosed schizoaffective.
His symptoms were: delusional thoughts, disorganized speech, auditory and visual hallucinations.
In hypnosis, all of these symptoms would go away.
While working with him, he told me about a traumatic accident. His sister was killed in a drive-by shooting at the age of 16, she died within his hand. He was trying to guide her to safety.
His mind was attempting to process the traumatic event.
But the Feeling was so powerfully intense! The emotional brain stopped him from feeling. His rational mind started to create the illogical rationalization. His belief was verbalized as "I can't believe this.., I can't believe this.. "
The feeling was never processed, they were repressed. The denial started his delusional thinking.
That affected his cognition which lead to disorganized speech and hallucinations.
Well in hypnosis he was finally able to deal with the traumatic accident and after 15 weeks he became asymptomatic.
*No real name was used in this post*