Anorexia Nervosa is a Disorder of perception

The online Australian Doctor on 6 October 2026  published an article titled "Woman diagnosed with anorexia made final plea for better treatment of eating disorders before her death".

 The article outlines a South Australian coronial inquest into the June 2021 death of Jennifer (Jenni) Matters, a 24-year-old nursing graduate who died weighing 29.5kg after a two-year battle with anorexia.

Before her death, Ms Matters wrote a letter hoping her struggles would spark healthcare reforms to help others. Despite having a dedicated medical team, she faced structural barriers that ultimately proved fatal.

 This tragic case prompted me to make the following comment:

 ·         Tragedies like these are happening every day. It is so sad. Anorexia is a disorder of perception. Perceptions influence our thinking, and our thinking influences our behaviour and actions. I have been telling the medical profession that we live in a hypnotic world. Our thinking process is hypnotic. When we think, we hypnotise ourselves. The words we use hypnotise us, positively or negatively. But the psychiatrists are not listening. They do not understand hypnosis. Hypnosis underpins our thinking process. The ego is a product of self-hypnosis. Most people don't realise they are already hypnotised. I fear we cannot educate the public until the medical profession wakes up from its self-hypnosis. How can we possibly treat mental illness without understanding hypnosis?
https://vocal.media/education/the-medical-profession-and-hypnosis

 Do you know that not a single psychiatrist followed up on my comment? What does it mean? Does it mean that the psychiatrists are not interested in mental health issues? Don't they want to prevent suicides? Don't they want to understand hypnosis and how it works? Don't they want to educate the public on hypnosis? Don't they want to admit that the ego is a deluded entity? By staying silent about my observations, will it make the truth disappear? Are we practising evidence-based medicine?

 To me, this is an obvious case of negative self-hypnosis which resulted in anorexia nervosa. The public and the medical profession do not understand hypnosis. What they know comes from watching stage hypnosis, which is nothing but showmanship and entertainment. It gives one a totally wrong impression that someone outside can hypnotise you.

 Do you know that hypnosis is the basis of our thinking process? No one can hypnotise you. You are hypnotising yourself when you think. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Whenever you follow someone else's directions, you are hypnotising yourself, not the other person. If you do not follow the instructions, you cannot be hypnotised. If you are reading a book and following a story, you are hypnotising yourself again. If you are watching TV or listening to the radio and following the story, you are hypnotising yourself. Please understand that no one can hypnotise you, except you yourself. It means no one can make you do things against your will.

 Whenever we think or talk to ourselves, we hypnotise ourselves. In hypnosis, we use the conditioned reflex of words to manipulate our subconscious mind. Every word we use has a reflex attached to it. That reflex has a feeling attached to it. It has a hypnotic effect on our subconscious mind. Our perception of time is hypnotic. For example, when we say "today", it instantly brings us to the present. When we say "yesterday", it instantly takes us back to the past. When we say "tomorrow", it takes us instantly to the future. So you see how words make us travel in time. If we didn't use words, we couldn't travel through time.

 Words have hypnotic power. Positive words have a positive effect on you, and negative words have a negative effect. For example, if someone says, "You look great", it instantly makes you feel good. It means positive words instantly produce positive chemicals in your brain. And if someone says, "You look terrible", you instantly feel sick. Negative words instantly produce negative chemicals in your brain. So, depending on how we use words in our thinking process, can you see how we can make ourselves happy or sad at any given moment by saying different words?

 Do you know how one produces anxiety and tension in oneself? If you say, "What is going to happen? or Why is he late?" you instantly create anxiety in your system. If you keep repeating those types of words, you create more tension in your system. If you have a bad habit of saying these types of words, you can turn into an anxious personality. It is because you are practising negative self-hypnosis. Learn to say positive words, like "Everything is fine, etc., and you will feel a lot better, even if you did not mean it. That is called positive self-hypnosis.

 When people are depressed and sad, it means they are using a lot of negative words in their mind. Become aware of the words you use, replace negative words with positive ones, and see how you feel afterwards. If your perception is negative, talk to someone to get a different perspective.

 Your thinking is the tool you use to influence your subconscious mind, positively or negatively, like a pianist uses the piano keys to play a happy or sad tune. Your ego is a product of self-hypnosis. Do you know you cannot appear in your conscious mind without thinking (using words)? The ego wants to play a dominant role all the time. That is why most people are obsessed with thinking. They feel they cannot stop thinking. Overthinking becomes a problem.

 Have you ever tried to stop thinking? What happens to your ego when you stop thinking? Here is a way to find out. Wherever you are, relax and look at the picture of reality in front of you. Become aware of the present. Do not say a single word. Take in the whole picture in your field of vision except your back. You can identify all the objects and understand the picture. You are still in the present moment, now, as an observer. You have not disappeared from the mind.

 Use this mode for meditation and self-knowledge. In this observer mode, you are dehypnotised and fully aware of the present and what is happening inside and outside you. Your thoughts will try to intrude into your picture. Do not restrain them. Observe the words you use in your thoughts. When you analyse your thoughts, you activate them. When you stop verbalising, they disappear. This is your first step in meditation and acquiring self-knowledge. The thinker-thinking mode is hypnotic. It creates delusions.

 I trust this article gives you a different perspective on anorexia and some understanding of hypnosis, and inspires you to acquire self-knowledge.