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Please, I've provided enough context at every stage to be clearly understood. What is regarded and by whom as medicine is not the same as recommending something as complementary to other medicine.

The problem with your post is here -

hypnotherapy is generally accepted as a mechanism to treat certain conditions (which it appears to be in various quarters of traditional medicine)

It does not treat anything directly. It can help in as much as painkillers can help. That's it. The way you have framed it makes it appear to be more than that.

From your link -

When used therapeutically, it can be thought of as “guided daydreaming”.

Being very good at helping people relax, overcome fears and reduce anxiety is absolutely beneficial when used alongside medical procedure.

That does not mean it is medical procedure and nothing you have linked to suggests otherwise.

From your other link -

In the UK, hypnotherapists do not have to have any specific training by law.

This means hypnotherapy can be offered by people with little training who are not health professionals.

I used a form of hypnotherapy to stop smoking, so I'm not against the use of it. But it didn't "make" me stop, it helped me to stop because I wanted to stop and because I believed it could help. Which is a very powerful tool in that scenario, as shown by my never having smoked since and not having any side effects or cravings at all after the session. Over seventeen years ago.

I have over egged my objections to your post somewhat because I feel very strongly about the way in which we present information over social media. I don't think I need tell you why that's important.

Just don't tell people hypnotherapy can fix them. And make it clear that isn't what you are saying. Please.

very much accepted in areas of UK medicine

Those areas are defined by the NHS specifically as complementary or alternative therapies. In other words, not part of general practition and similar to other, general health advice.

From your link -

The effectiveness of hypnotherapy depends on the individual.

Very much like advice to rest after ill health, or perhaps as part of a programme to increase fitness we may receive advice to take regular brisk walks.

Hypnotherapy is not medicine. It will never be the primary course of any treatment. But I have also said that it can help, which is as much as any medical professional will agree with.

Trying to give it any further weight, as you are, isn't helpful and could be harmful. Please don't do that.

but as with all medicine, research is ongoing.

This does not mean that it accepted for use in medical practice. In fact the amount of studies done that have not moved hypnotherapy into the field of medical practice, are a body of good evidence which makes that very unlikely to ever happen.

information available with regards to its use within (traditional, licensed) medical organisations.

In the UK, all of that information is with regards to voluntary use and warnings about the possible dangers of doing so.

The US could be different in certain areas, but that isn't blanket and shouldn't be accepted as such.

Hypnotherapy is not medicine, any more than a brisk walk is. It can help with other things if done properly, but it can just as easily cause damage.

I hope this clarifies the situation.

currently the votes are public but hidden from Lemmy regular users

Tough. If you think any action you take on a social media platform is private then you shouldn't be here.

Whether it is private or not isn't the problem. It's people assuming any part of is. Behave or suffer. Just like the real world.

I'm not technical and I'm also not young.

I think anyone coming into an online social platform who thinks that any part of it is private, is too naive and/or uneducated to be using that type of platform.

I'm sure there's parts of platforms which are private, I just don't think it's advisable to assume that at any point.

You're online, interacting with people. If you wanted privacy, don't be there doing that. Post and behave as if you are publishing everything to a major commercial physical publication. Every post, every comment, every vote, every blocked user. On every one of your accounts.

Otherwise, you'll get what's coming to you. And I'm fine with that.

Drop Dead Fred.

Everything by Terry Gilliam is fantastic!

They Live is a great film.

This morning I read a comment somewhere on Lemmy that linked to Jodorowskys Dune.

My father took me to see Star Wars when it was still only on in London, so I was 9 or 10.

The significance of that will become clear by watching this documentary. I can't believe I've only found out today.

I find the time a battery keeps going to be almost irrelevant when I can charge from 0 to 100% in 25 mins.

And because I only charge from around 20 to 30% up to 80%, it's a 10-15 minute wait at most.

My biggest battery drain is sot, with a large battery it's not inconvenient at all.

Old phones can't compete and iPhones are a joke.

Does a strategy war game on the Commodore Pet count? Can't remember the name, I was 8 or 9 so it would have been around 1977/78.

My friend had the console with Pong but I don't know if that was before or after.

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