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Agoraphobia,
Fibromyalgia, Depression and Addiction: A Wretched Life
By
Charles Wm. Skillas,
Ph.D., DD, BCH, FNGH, CI
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Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces and Fibromyalgia
is a pain disorder in your muscles and joints. It may
also cause poor sleep, headaches, and stiffness or muscle
aches. Stress or lack of sleep can make the symptoms
of Fibromyalgia worse. More women than men have Fibromyalgia,
but the disorder is common--it is seen in about 5% of
the population. However, it isn't life-threatening and
it doesn't cause permanent damage but it makes life
miserable. Psychotherapists treat Agoraphobia and Depression
and medical doctors usually treat Fibromyalgia with
pain medication.
Doris, a 43-year-old
single female spent the last four years imprisoned in
her house, afraid to go out and wracked with intractable
pain for nine years that was diagnosed as Fibromyalgia.
She was being treated with benzodiazepines for sleep,
anti-depressants for depression and heavy pain medications;
including cortisone injections and oxygen treatments
from a chiropractor. She was addicted to the sleep and
pain medications and also to get relief, drank upwards
of 5 liters of wine every day to help her sleep and
relieve the pain. She added the wine because she had
developed tolerance to the medications and was at the
upper limit on drug dosage. Drugs such as these usually
don't work for people in the long term and the wine
seemed to help her to bear her misery. Her life was
shattered and she was an emotional wreck when I met
her.
Because I am not a licensed
medical doctor or psychotherapist, I cannot treat these
conditions, but I agreed to try to generally help her
using hypnotherapy at her urgent request. Although she
was a beautiful and wealthy woman, Doris had very low
self-esteem and never had a healthy relationship with
men. The two men in her life were non-supportive and
treated her badly. The first man beat her and the second
with whom she had a child, now a teenager, was indolent
and sought to keep her dependent on him so she would
financially support him. He wanted her sick so he could
take care of her and not have to work. She had a very
beautiful and wealthy domineering mother who from childhood
belittled her. She had 10 unneeded cosmetic surgeries
at her mother's insistence by the time she was 35 years
old. Her mother was ashamed at her illness and had once
sent her to a mental hospital for 5 weeks to "straighten
out", an experience that left her "shaken" and worse
than before. Doris loved her father but he died of cancer
when she was very young.
Using regression therapy,
I discovered that when Doris was 6 years old, her mother
started making out with men in the house and would make
Doris put on a nightgown and kiss the men mother was
"entertaining". Doris had great fear that her mother
would abandon her and would try to sleep with her mother
so the men could not. At 7 years old, she was attacked
by a swarm of wasps stinging her all over her body and
in another lifetime, she fell down the stairs severely
injuring her. These regression incidents proved to be
the source of her Fibromyalgia pain. The fear that enveloped
her created soul-mind fragmentation (ego states) within
her that were still highly energized. The fear lowered
her psychic defense system and demons came upon her
to destroy her using the fragmentation, fear and the
energy of the wasp episode as their tools of destruction.
Doris is a fine woman of great light and demons seek
to destroy people like her.
Without going into the
therapy details, this is what I generally did for her.
I released the demons, and was then able to resolve
negative issues from the past by means of this life
and past life regression therapies. Using Parts therapy
and Gestalt therapy, we were able to work out her self-hate,
mother forgiveness issues and soul-mind fragmentation.
Once these were taken care of, I reprogrammed her subconscious
for ego strength and self-value. I also provided her
with her own internal safe place with self-induced triggers
to access it, and made her aware of her own Guardian
Angel's protection. (Her Inner Protector)
The entire course of
therapy took 21 hours. About one month after completing
therapy, Doris resumed her life free of the negative
forcing functions that were destroying her. She now
drinks one or two glasses of wine in a day, just for
the enjoyment of it. She no longer takes sleep medication
and the pain of the Fibromyalgia is practically gone
and will soon be totally gone. Her medications are drastically
reduced and she is successfully weaning herself of them
entirely. The depression, having been caused by the
devastation of her illness, has lifted now that she
has pain relief and optimism. She is driving her car,
which sat idle for 4 years and interacting with her
daughter in a positive way helping her with schoolwork
and taking her shopping. She visited her mother, felt
at peace with her, and has told her leach boyfriend
to get out of her house, which surprised and distressed
him causing him to become much more truly helpful to
Doris. This relationship may have a chance to become
positive if he receives help.
Truly, releasing the
negative forcing functions within her subconscious mind
and positively reprogramming it, has enabled her to
find herself and her life has changed from one of misery
and unhappiness to one of hope and anticipation of the
future.
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