I accept all this, although as I understand (understood) it, I always thought that IBS was a functional disorder, ie was it not for the faulty communication between the brain and gut, people could be cured? Apparently, this is incorrect then?
I'm a bit puzzled that you say that hypnosis can't cure IBS. There have been success stories? In fact there have been people whose digestion has never ever been as good pre-hypnosis as post-hypnosis, ever?
My personal case: even pre-IBS I had a sensitive digestive system, and I have had insomnia ever since I can remember and I have had very mild OCD/depression since I was a teenager. I believed the root cause to all this (and my subsequent IBS) was flawed seratonin levels/functioning. I was on a very small dose of Zoloft (SSRI anti-depressant, right?) for a couple of months, it helped all round, with the IBS and the other problems as well. I am by no means being deliberately obtruse but I am not a scientist (surprise! ) and I am perplexed. Is OCD/depression/insomnia psychological or physiological? I thought all these problems of mine were connected? Do you/ any other fellow sufferer not have any other woes apart from the IBS?
I am still utterly gobsmacked that you said that hypnosis cannot cure people! I've only ever done self-hypnosis btw and that in itself has helped tremendously, I was about to invest in proper hypnosis once I got back to London not worth it then?
-------------------- Susie, born in 1985,
(pseudo-)D and bloating April 2007-December 2010, now stable