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PHOBIAS are irrational fears which can have a debilitating effect on the sufferer, and when the Evening News published an appeal for volunteers to be hypnotised to cure them of the problem there was no shortage of volunteers.Three women were chosen to take part, each with their own unique phobia – balloons, birds and spiders. Ian Duncan reports on the hypnosis and its effects on the volunteers.Scarborough-based hypnotist Gary Grant reassured all the volunteers they would be aware of what was going on around them while under hypnosis. He said: "You will be aware of the sounds below and everything that's going on. At no time will you be asleep or unconscious."The 30-year-old hypnotherapist, who is originally from County Donegal in Ireland and has previously worked in Dublin and South Wales, operates from Bar Street. He claims to be able to help people with a range of problems – but he could only hypnotise people who wanted to be hypnotised.He said: "No harm could possibly come to anyone when they are hypnotised. I can't get anyone to do anything against their will. If you don't want to be hypnotised you won't be hynotised."The first volunteer was Rhian Owen, of Murchison Street, a 28-year-old mother with a 15-month-old daughter called Bliss. Rhian has been afraid of balloons for as long as she can remember.She said she couldn't remember exactly when her fear began but suspected it had been when she was a small baby and a balloon had been tied to her cot. "It was dark and I was by myself," she said.When she was growing up, friends' birthdays were a nightmare and, in extreme cases, some boys would torment her by squeaking them and threatening to pop them.She said the problem was now affecting her daughter because she could not take her to children's parties as the threat from balloons was always present.She settled into the comfortable leather chair in Mr Grant's office as he explained the process and he asked her to close her eyes. "Your eyelids are feeling relaxed, now double that nice relaxed feeling. Increase it by 10 times," he said in his Irish brogue.He steadily increased the feeling of relaxation and asked her to picture numbers, counting backwards from 100.She experienced rapid eye movement, which is typical of a hynotic state, but then felt uncomfortable because she thought she could see through her eyelids.Mr Grant reassured her that was a normal reaction before taking her through the relaxation process once more.He then asked her to relive a past experience when the fear first started. "One, two, three, you are there," he said as he clicked his fingers.Miss Owen was taken back to the time when she was in her cot but the memory was so strong that she started to cry.Mr Grant said this was known as an abreaction – where the subject relives a past experience in order to purge it of its emotional attachment.After the session she said she felt more confident about balloons. Mr Grant took her to the Scarborough branch of Clinton Cards in Westborough, but when he threatened to burst a balloon she ran out of the door.As she stood in the shop, he hypnotised her again, asking her to replay her frightening experiences over and over again – like a virtual video tape.Staff in the card shop looked shocked when the hypnotist proceeded to pop several display balloons but the therapy had worked because Miss Owen barely flinched.She said: "I was anxious before it started but once I started it I felt really relaxed. I just wanted to get to the bottom of the phobia. It has definitely worked because before I wouldn't have been able to stand near balloons."Mr Grant said: "I felt it went very well. Facing a fear for the first time is always a bit risky."The second volunteer was 62-year-old Christine Broxholme, of Filey Road in Scarborough, a part-time shop assistant who has a morbid fear of spiders.She said: "I've had this from childhood. My brother and his friends thought it was funny to throw them at me. It's just never gone away."Spotting one of the eight-legged arachnids would cause an immediate panic reaction. She added: "I know it's so silly, I know they're not a danger to me, they're not going to bite me or do anything to me."But when she started the hypnotism session, despite several attempts by Mr Grant, she found she could not relax and was not hypnotised. She said: "I don't feel as if I'm relaxing enough, perhaps I am one of those that you just can't hypnotise."Mr Grant said: "At that moment in time it was just not right for her. If she came back in one or two weeks' time I'd be able to help her. There's something on her mind that's concerning her."The third volunteer was 58-year-old Jean Malton, of Cleveland Avenue, who had been afraid of birds for as long as she could remember.She said: "I don't like the wings flapping, I don't like their beaks and I don't like the feet. I used to be bad with feathers. I had two cats and they were always bringing dead birds in. I'm not so bad with the feathers now but I can't dispose of the bodies."One night when I was on my own the cat brought a bird in and dumped it on the stairs. I couldn't go upstairs to bed and I had to get a neighbour in to help clear it up."But during the first session Mrs Malton, who works as a part-time nurse, found that she could not relax and Mr Grant had to overcome several barriers before she could successfully be hypnotised.At a second session in the Evening News offices she recalled a time when ducks wandered into her ward and she felt trapped in an office – unable to move – and she had to get someone else to chase them away.After the session she felt a lot more confident about facing up to her fears and it was decided to go into Aberdeen Walk, where there were plenty of pigeons.She managed to get within a metre of one of the birds without feeling apprehensive. "That pigeon over there doesn't bother me. I don't feel as scared as I did. It doesn't bother me that much. I would never have come as close as this before to a bird before," she said.And when one pigeon flew within inches of her face she hardly moved. "That didn't bother me at all.Mr Grant said: "We are making progress. Some people take 40 minutes and others take a little longer."
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