R2d2,
I am very sorry you had to endure the suffering of being abused as a child.
It takes alot of courage to speak about it.

I tried to be hypnotized twice, once to quit smoking and once for past-life regression/recall. I was not able to be hypnotized either time.

I am not familiar with your previous posts. I think you stated you are sometimes afraid people have hypnotized you in the past without your knowledge or consent.

I know you questioned why you didn't move during the abuse. It is a very normal reaction to go into shock during those times,to compartmentalize and separate yourself,existing only in your mind, as a way of survival and protection for the psyche.

Have you ever thought also, that you could have been drugged?

I have found in my own experiences with trauma, caused tremendous free-floating anxiety that I would feel all the time.

I know when a person exists in a state of fear for a long time, that fear can sometimes expand and encroach into areas that it normally wouldn't.

This anxiety from the trauma, even if you think you have overcome it, will keep manifesting in different ways until you really overcome the trauma.

Some ways this fear could manifest is thinking people can read your mind or maybe hypnotize you.

I have learned in therapy, that the mind will try to create a reason for the fear or anxiety one feels, to give it a reason for the fear. For me, it would come up as panic attacks-for so many things. Addressing what really happened and how it effected me has helped me with free-floating anxiety.

That may not be the case with you. It was just a thought and my experience.

I don't know much about hypnotism. I don't know if it can be done to someone without their knowledge or consent. I believe it would be highly immoral and wrong to do that.