Saving My Aunt who had a Stroke and Meningitis through Coma and Brain Recovery

In end of last month (December 2014), my maternal aunt had a meningitis and a stroke.

She went into a coma, where my family was told that she had 50/50 chance to survive. I personally did not know what I can do, especially when I was in the U.S. and my aunt was in Japan.

So, just as a good psychologist will do, I researched about coma, stroke, meningitis to add to what I already know and give the information to my family. Especially, to my grandmother who was extremely worried.

Interestingly, I found a case study where they helped a person to be awake from coma using hypnosis and continued using hypnosis for recovery in 1987 (see: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/ 10.1080/00029157.1987.10402705).

To give a hypnosis, I recorded a hypnotic session of 8 minutes (which can be repeated) hoping that the Ericksonian hypnosis will have an affect on my Aunt's recovery.

And interestingly enough, she opened her eyes in two days from coma, right after listening to my recording where I state the suggestion of "open your eyes!"

I am sure she was receiving the correct treatment for her medical condition, and it is still interesting where such thing happens.

I created more recordings to support her brain recovery through hypnosis and also did couple of neuropsychological test to see her progress and have statistical expectation on her recovery.

Interestingly enough medical treatments in Japan do not do such things.

Neuropsychological assessment, treatment planning, and hypnotic treatment are some thing I believe Japanese treatment can do more of.