Last two months, so eight weeks, there's been about six cases of people coming to me because they were suffering mental issues relating to hypnosis. Some were willingly done, damage to the psyche and personality of the person inflicted upon, some were accidental, untrained hypnotists, or inexperienced ones who failed to give the proper approach to the subjects mind.
And nothing annoys me more then having to fix someone else's screw up.
Today, I'd like to discuss the first one, the willing person who damages another mind to conform to their will. I'll be the first to admit, I have a sub, one cute one with a mindmelting fetish.
However, as part of our agreement, although he wants to be permanently melted mentally into a stupid happy idiot, the worst I do is temporary dumbness, some bestial mental traits around the house, when safe, and so on. This is as much a personal ethics thing as it is safety issue, so we'll focus on the latter. It's not my job to tell you what to do to the people you trance, nor is it my business to deny you permanent changes just because. My business here, is to simply try and explain why even those who lack morals regarding keeping another's mind healthy and whole should always seek to make sure the suggestion is safe in the long term, as well as short.
Regarding such, please remember this; No matter how well the subject appears to be taking the suggestion, and even if they've had similar suggestions done before, always double check to make sure the mind won't seek to reject it. I've seen numerous cases of people with long term suggestions that weren't touched up frequently experience headaches and various mental issues because the subconscious/conscious didn't fully agree with the suggestion. Since this causes pain and possible mental problems down the road, you should each and every chance you get, double check to make sure the suggestion is considered "safe" to the mind, and thus acceptable.
Secondly, we'll discuss the topic of brainwashing. By virtue of being such a common thing in modern media, more people have developed a fetish, kink, or even interest in brainwashing then say, sneezing. It's also one of the most dangerous to the long term mental health of a subject. It is ridiculously easy to overwhelm someone's mind, using subtle words and suggestions to get them to agree and adopt something. And, as any person who's had experience doing this, the longer and more efficient the brainwashing is exposed t the person, the longer and deeper it lasts/is. Therein lies the problem. A minor brainwashing done to someone to say, make them inclined to see you as a master/mistress may seem harmless, but if it goes against their moral code, their ethics, their personality, or, god(s) help you if this is the case, their own fetishes, you've rousted a nest of snakes. Eventually, without constant upkeep or annihilation of the root resistance, the person will return to normal. Or rather, the mind will eventually attempt to do such. Brainwashing, if done properly, can last years even after extensive mental counselling and therapy, even if it's minor. Brainwashing, by virtue of the forced changing of someone's mind, can very easily lead a recovering subconscious and conscious to misinterpret what it should return to. This can lead, simply, into things like schizophrenia, phobias, memory loss, bipolar, unintended fetishes, emotional damage, and so on. Considering you're already screwing up someone's mind to do this, people, the least you can do is make sure if the person stops talking to you, or escapes, or whatever, that they can recover somewhat easily. And all that takes is a simple snapshot of their mind to refer to whenever the subconscious tries to recover. I can honestly understand there's hypnotists out there who don't care, examples including one such unpleasant individual who made his victims commit suicide so he could get a high off it, but this is something that needs to be looked at as a issue, is long term fallout.
None of us can be aware of everything, but neglecting safety of the subject, even if we regard them as little more then a masturbation aid, is a breach of ethics and a sore problem. These are people, people, human beings who have lives, feelings, hopes and dreams even before you graced them with your time and effort. Don't fuck up just because you don't care.
Thirdly, and finally, I will come to the subject of willingly abusive hypnotists. We have all heard the horror stories, or seen their work first hand, or, if you're one reading this, hi, any complaints can be directed at my PM Inbox. They are out there, they do exist. Not in the numbers of say, deadly types of snakes, but they are out there. This isn't something that means you should avoid hypnosis altogether because the boogeyman(woman)is real, this is something that goes for anyone, no matter if you're a hypnotist or subject. Before ANYTHING hypnosis wise, get safeties first. Whether through self-hypnosis, the help of a live/IM/Phone hypnotist, or even a file, which I will be working on very shortly. Even if you are totally confident in your abilities as far as recognizing trance and its effects, and staying away from suggestions, this is your mind, better safe then sorry. if you want safeties, but don't trust the hypnotist, then find another one, or, have someone watching the trance who has safeties to make sure that you're not being mislead and suggested wrongly.
Safety in regards to your mind isn't safety, it's necessity.
As I said before, I'm not making judgments of what you do in your spare time, your kinks or actions, what I want is for the people whoa re at risk, hypnotists and subjects together, to be protected against bad suggestions, and people who don't care. And yes, my PM box is open for complaints, as well as the forum. When I finish the script for the safeties file, and assuming I'm still on the forum and haven't been booed off, I will write a little thing about people who don't know what they're doing, and how to fix that. Thank you for your time.
Tl;dr for those of you who have little time, or just don't feel like reading something important. Bad hypnotists are out there, get safeties, be careful.