Stuntddude wrote:Rule of thumb: If it "only works when you believe it will", then it probably doesn't work.
That's not true, I could totally see that believing in the hypnosis being a major keystone to actually achieving hypnosis.
You can pretty much tell your mind anything as long as you believe it hard enough.
Back in the days of like world war 2 when cities where low on supplies they used to hand out small pills containing sugar instead of actual medicine claiming that it'll solve your headache or easy the pain in your leg etc.
They worked, but only on people who didn't know the truth and strongly believed that the pill would help you.
The sugar was there to enchance your trust on the pill as sugar is both tasty and makes you less tired for a little while, people mistook this for the pill beginning it's miracle medicine thing.
The most common reason for "losing your mind"/"becoming crazy" is when something traumatic which you can't handle happens like say your family dies (usually it has to be in a extreme way but let's not get into that), or being put in the prison cell where you only have walls and it's pitch black for a longer time (can't remember the English name for it), you become crazy because you just can't handle the truth and tell yourself otherwise such as you never had a family etc. the dangerous thing is when someone tells you about what really happened.
In regards to the furry forum being more acceptable towards hypnosis I think it has to do with that forum being more extreme than this one.
I wouldn't recommend hypnosis at all but that probably has to do with that I haven't tried it myself similar to how everyone says "drugs are bad" but the guy just tried drugs would probably say it's heaven while most likely arguing around the downsides.