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Limiting Beliefs

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Overcome Limiting Beliefs / Changing Limiting Beliefs

Limiting Beliefs Series / Entry #1

Finding Hope

Finding Hope

I recently started working with someone suffering from tinnitus who said the door to hope has been cracked open since being bombarded by so many telling him there is nothing he can do to get well.  He found countless entries online talking about the endless horror that he is in for.   Doctors have said, “There’s nothing we can do. Come back in two months.”  The picture painted of the future was a dark one and perhaps one he didn’t want to live with.

Then he told me how he experienced brief silence a few times over the course of the week as he works to redirect his mind away from focusing on the tinnitus.  I was so excited to hear that because Read Full Article →

Vets Suffering from Tinnitus

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Irag and Afghanistan War Veterans Suffer from Tinnitus

Tinnitus Veterans on Disability

Tinnitus Veterans on Disability

Although we are a visual people, you don’t have to see the wounds in order for them to exist.

Yes, it’s a lot easier for someone to know a veteran has to deal with the affects of war when you can see it,but it should not have to be necessary.

In my research to address the growing issue of soldiers coming home from military service with tinnitus, I have also found Read Full Article →

Tinnitus Tele-Consult

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 with Jennifer Battaglino

WHERE TO START?       Which road should you take?

tinnitus consult

The Tinnitus Teleconsult   -

consults available in person, telephone, and Skype (webcam)

First: Read the Tinnitus FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Second:Read,Tinnitus: Turning Down the Volume, 2010 edition, which has been revised and expanded; co-authored by Jennifer Battaglino and Kevin Hogan. It is a great place to start to get a better idea of Read Full Article →

Chronic Illness: Tinnitus Case Study

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Jennifer S. Battaglino, LCSW

Tinnitus, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Immunodeficiency Syndrome (CFIDS), and Environmental Illness can be grouped in a class of chronic illness where traditional medicine may not or cannot help an individual get well.   Patients are told on a regular basis “there is nothing you can do” or “just learn to live with it”.   Despite tests results that come up negative for physical causes, each individual’s experience is real.   The pain, anxiety, depression, panic, and torture they are experiencing is very real and, when left untreated, only increases in severity and may end in suicidal ideations.

Everyone deserves a chance to experience life to the best of their ability.   To date, the most effective and successful therapeutic intervention I have experienced is hypnoanalysis using the CARPeTS model.   By definition, hypnoanalysis is the process by which the therapist listens to a client after bypassing the critical faculty of the mind and is allowed to find the causes of the client’s presenting problems and symptoms.    The key is to utilize hypnoanalysis to facilitate change and encourage healing.   The hypnotherapist strives to achieve physical, emotional, and/or mental health in individuals who fail to respond to other therapeutic interventions.    Healing is defined as the reduction or elimination of the emotional response to symptoms rather than a cure, which is the actual physical remission of symptoms.   (Hogan, 2001)   How do you accomplish such a goal?   Through a thorough therapeutic intervention including an in depth Case Analysis, Regression Therapy, Parts Therapy, Time Track Therapy, and Suggestive Therapy…CARPeTS.

Tinnitus Case Study:   Larry

Case Analysis

I first spoke to Larry on the phone.   He had been suffering from severe tinnitus for approximately six months when his sister-in-law stumbled upon hypnotherapy as a treatment method.   Since Larry had exhausted all other avenues including his internist, ENT doctor, psychiatrist, and neurologist he was willing to give it one last try.   He was still seeing his medical doctors regularly, particularly his psychiatrist who prescribed anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications.   “I guess we should at least try to meet since I was going to kill myself anyway… Read Full Article →