Thank you. We do have some interest in alternative health care. It's not so much the "alternative" as the standard issue is broken in many ways. For one thing, it over-emphasizes drug therapy. If it can't be solved by drugs or surgery, then there's a good chance they can't deal with it at all. There are a few other therapies but they are pretty minor.
One major problem is that the model of healthcare creates a lot of un-necessary and in fact harmful bottlenecks. It also, somewhat relatedly, assumes that healthcare exists in a vacuum--as if it were not connected to everything else in life.
For example, my wife often asks elderly or very sick patients being discharged if they have a ride home and/or someone at home to take care of them. The answer is often "no"--in fact, sometimes the patients seem startled by the question, as if it were totally unexpected due to lack of relevance!
Medicine needs to be more "holistic".
I am certified in hypnotherapy, which has a lot of applications to health because of the mysterious "mind body" (should be "brain body") connection. I don't bring it up often, because I don't want to upset people, because
1. Someone wrote a book called "Trilby" with a villain named "Svengali" who uses hypnosis to keep a young woman as his way of making a living and as, ah, personal property. It all ends badly when he keels over of a heart attack and she dies shortly thereafter of hypnotic withdrawal (there's no such thing. It's not a drug), after a humiliating catastrophe when she wakes up. To this day, hypnosis has never recovered from the sinister associations which are totally fictional.
2. Someone spread a rumor within the evangelical community that hypnosis opens up your mind to Satan. If that were true, we'd all be demon-possessed whereas trance states occur spontaneously and are normal and natural. You probably go into a trance every night before falling asleep.
3. "Stage hypnotists" do weird stuff that has no relevance and gives people the idea that it's all about making them stand up and start swaying their hips like Elvis when the music comes on. Now how is that useful?!
Opsec is being kind.
My forte is "thinking outside the box", which alas also means I'm a bit, well, "weird". But the good news is that strange times call for strange brain architectures. I was born for this.
Welcome.
Glad that you posted promptly.
