Hypnosis to Cope With Worries About Food Poisoning
Adam works with a younger client whose past experience of long, traumatic vomiting episodes led to hypervigilance around food poisoning, expressed through excessive checking of smells, dates, and online searching. He explains the paradox where anxious checking itself produces the nausea the client fears, rather than actual contamination. The session reframes the protective ‘alarm’ as overly sensitive, using a smoke-alarm and traffic-light (red, yellow, green) metaphor to recalibrate risk assessment. It normalises occasional nausea as the body’s protective mechanism, distinguishes real…
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