How did hypnois change my life?

After years of many pediatric consultations, many sessions with school and clinical psychologist and many more laxatives prescriptions, I was desperate to find a final solution to my teenage son’s issue with encopresis.

An ad in a local magazine about hypnosis looked interesting and I was willing to give it a try, after all everything else had NOT worked, on contraire it was complicating things. The ad announced, teenage, and children, so I guess my prayers had been answered. I was surprised to learn the consultation free, because I had asked, called, e-mailed previous therapists clinic and they were over my family’s budget by far.

My teenage son suffered from Encopresis, also called stool holding or soiling, occurs when your child resists having bowel movements, causing impacted stool to collect in the colon and rectum. When your child's colon is full of impacted stool, liquid stool can leak around the impacted stool and out of the anus, staining your child's underwear.

Encopresis usually occurs after age 4, when your child has already learned to use a toilet. In most cases, encopresis is a symptom of chronic constipation. Less frequently, it may be the result of developmental or emotional issues.

Doctors categorize encopresis as primary or secondary. Primary encopresis happens in a child who has never been successfully toilet trained. In secondary encopresis, a child develops the condition after having been successfully toilet trained.

Encopresis can be frustrating for you — and embarrassing and even painful experience for your child.  Therefore, talking about this issue was not comfortable for me or my son. When we met Ms. Gonzalez , a school counselor and her partner, a retired RN, I felt confident, we had found a solution, they knew from their experience how my son felt and they would do whatever was in their control to help us out.

After two sessions, my son started joining school activities, was dressing better and his attitude was a more positive one. His self-esteem was reinforced with the sessions. He was more open to continue consulting a gastroenterologist and accepting it was time for a life time change for the best. Under the guidance of Suzanne, I asked the specialist the correct questions and within a couple of days my son was seeing a specialist that was walking us through procedures that will help my son train his body to use the restroom normally, something his body had refused to do for so long. His body had to learn again, but now my son was aware that this issue was NOT his fault and could be more open to this transition.

My son is now 16-years old. Lives a normal and happy life, like any teenager! He eats, like one, laughs like one, enjoys sports and outdoor activities, he has life back, and therefore, I am extremely grateful to Ms. Gonzalez and Ms. Suzane for their services as hypnotherapists, counselor and nurse.

I am eternally grateful and wish them great success! If any parent is struggling with any issues with their child, let it be something big, or small. If it needs to be taken care of, hypnosis would be a recommendation I would gladly give.

Mrs. R.