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Well, I can't say I'd feel a whole lot better after a response like that, Dr Pierre! I wonder, GoodGirl, if you've gone to him and told him what you've outlined in your post, about how you feel your attitude has changed, etc? His comments about not wanting to settle down, is that something he's alwa...

Does anyone have any tips for us girls wanting to get on the compartmentalisation gravy train?! :) It's known that men are more skilled at putting areas of their life in 'compartments', so that an emotion or concern doesn't pervade all situations. This is but one reason why women are, generally spea...

Well, what do you know? As soon as I posted I found this chart:

http://sl.schofield3.home.att.net/medic ... chart.html

Hope the link works

This seems to back up the claim of 21 hours . . .

Louise

Does anybody know what the half life of Seroxat is? I read on another forum that it was 21 hours! Not so sure on that one, especially as they also said the half life of Prozac was 16-21 days, and I'm under the impression it's 8 days . . . If anyone has any clues, it'd be much appreciated :) Louise

Well I'm glad to hear you're finding the websites useful.

It sounds like you're already making great progress, what with looking up information and also using the hypnosis tapes.

Great stuff . . .

Louise

Well that's a pleasure, Andy

Oh the joys of night shifts, eh?

Well, I do hope you thoroughly enjoy the workshop . . .

Louise

It does seem we're talking about the same thing here. Although, I would say that smoking is something that has become unconscious, therefore as you said, rational thinking no longer comes into it. What I think of as the emotional brain is the part that holds/processes important pieces of incoming st...

It's only faulty pattern matching, fears that serve no purpose, which need to be deconditioned. This is exactly my point, Andy. A therapist who uses these sorts of scare tactics may well create a faulty pattern match, a fear that serves no purpose, which needs to be deconditioned. For example, a fe...

'I know when my clients let go of smoking because I get a strong emotional response (eyes water, voice changes etc). It has to be there because the smoking pattern has been held in the emotional brain.' Is this really true that smoking is held in the emotional part of the brain? I am under the impre...

Hi Starship, Thanks for your post :) I'm not sure what you know already, or which of our websites you may have visited, but I'll tell you what I know. We tend to dream more when we have emotionally arousing thoughts during the day, which don't get 'completed'. By that, I mean we don't get to resolve...

I was talking to a fellow diploma student about some different techniques for smoking. He said he'd come across this idea of telling the story of a man who, when he put a cigarette to his lips, found that there was blood on his lips and the cigarette (yes, gross I know!). And it can be embellished, ...

Hi Andy, Welcome to the forum :) I know I'm from Uncommon Knowledge, but I couldn't resist telling you about some of my experiences from doing the diploma course myself this year, plug plug . . . It's just that you mentioned how being a therapist could be quite solitary and it does seem like it coul...

Hi Guy, Thanks for that, it's very helpful. Such a good idea to change other things within the pattern too, like you said, just any disruption of the pattern is useful and at least a beginning. The anchored response of my client wasn't something I even mentioned to her, as I felt it would be too jar...

Yes, it is a bit of a tricky one . . . when I say untrained I mean as a person who could prescribe medication. That's not to say that all those who can't do the prescribing therefore can't be experts on anti depressants and how they affect a human being. I guess the quandry was over knowing what I k...

Hello, I found your post really clear and useful, Guy - thanks for that :) I wondered what your views/approach might be if a client has anchored smoking quite strongly to a particular person? A client I saw recently said that she smokes much more and feels a real 'pull' to smoke when with a certain ...