Can a child be hypnotized against their will?
When my daughter is with her father, she comes back with completely different feelings. I try and ask her why her feelings change and she can’t remember. Up till when she was about 9, she used to sleep with me a couple times a week. She would get scared at night and crawl in bed with me. I knew my ex didn’t like this at all and would get upset when it happened to him. One day she just stopped. She couldn’t tell me why or how. This may be a good thing but now she is changing her mind all the time. At one point she wanted to get her ears pierced then she didn’t twice when we were going to go do it. She changed mind. But when she was with step mom, she did want to all of a sudden. Another time is I bought her a dress for a dance (she is 14 now). She really loved the dress and was excited to wear it. When she was at her dad’s house she called and said she didn’t like the dress and asked if step mom could take her to get a new dress the day of the dance. I was just fine with it but when I asked why she changed her mind she couldn’t really remember. One time she was having a bday party at her dad’s house and I was going to make the cake. She came up with the type, flavor, icing. A few days before I went to pick her up from dads house and he said “well she doesn’t want a cake anymore” I said that’s ridiculous bc she told me she did so I will bring it anyway. I asked her later why her father said that, she didn’t know. She said she did tell him that but didn’t know why. There are many times she changes feelings and can’t remember why.
I should preface that me and her father are not together. He is remarried to another woman who I’ve tried to “befriend” in many ways, there have been no riffs, yet she pretends like I don’t exist. It may be important to add that she is over 250 lbs. bc it could denote helplessness and depression. Also jealousy bc I am opposite. It may take this type of situation to breed helplessness and resort to hypnosis to get what they want. She also texts my daughter almost everyday on a friendly like manner. My daughter has mentioned how she also believes that she uses her father’s phone to pretend to be him sometimes. I have also suspected she has done this to me.
I am worried my daughter’s feelings are being hypnotized. What signs should I look for and can I undo it?