“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”—Sharon Begley.

One thing I had come across in the literature was the use of hypnotherapy to somehow affect the behavior of the gut. So I set out to find a hypnotherapist, and I found one. I had several sessions with him, but I wasn’t very impressed. He seemed to be wedded to the idea of psychologizing disease, and his hypnosis sessions were geared to somehow having me image me having control over my condition, which I obviously did not have other than when I chose to eat. As usual, this was a case of no effect detected, and I remember this one time in particular where I decided to test the efficacy by eating a meal midday and watching the effect. As was typical, the symptoms stopped and came back with an intense vengeance once the fasting state returned. All in line with the clockwork pathology of the disease and confirming that hypnosis could not impact it.