Stress & Anxiety

A little bit of stress in our lives is good. But stress and anxiety, especially if prolonged, can have a serious impact on your life. Because of modern day life, many people do not even realise they are suffering with stress or anxiety. Symptoms can be both physical and emotional and include headaches, stomach pain, short-temperedness, crying, over-eating and under-eating, lack of concentration, nail-biting, difficulty sleeping and reduced sex-drive.

I can work with you using hypnosis and hypnotherapy to alleviate and often completely remove stress symptoms. This involves getting to the root cause of your stress so that you can cope with it quickly and easily so that you can live the life you want.

Stress & anxiety come in a variety of different packages including:

• Work – related stress
• Generalised anxiety disorder
• Panic attacks
• Low mood

 

Did you know that boredom and feelings of lethargy and not being bothered are all a sign of stress?

Symptoms of anxiety include a raised heart rate, sweating, knots in your tummy, increased trips to the loo and difficulty breathing. Quite often, a first anxiety attack can feel similar to a heart attack especially if you have not experienced severe anxiety before.

Stress & anxiety are linked to our natural fight or flight response. What this means is that our subconscious percieves a threat to be present and reacts in a way to let us know a situation is dangerous. In the case of stress & anxiety, most of this is faulty learning on the part of our subconscious!

Below are a number of case studies outlining a few of the clients I have worked with in this area.

Panic Disorder

Case study: Female 41 - My client called me up because she had been suffering with panic attacks for a number of years. Over recent years it had got so bad that she could not leave the house without panicing. She would only go out if she had someone with her to help. This meant she had given up work, her social life had dwindled and it was beginning to put strain on her relationship with her husband and children. I worked with this client for 16 weeks, helping her to resolve the emotional causes behind her panic as well as arming her with techniques to reduce and manage the severity of the panic attacks. By the end of our time together, this client had gone from 4 panic attacks a day to only having panic attacks on very rare occasions. She was starting to look into part time study and was enjoying being able to go out on her own.

Anxiety

Case study: Male 29 - A successful graduate who had a great future in front of him came to see me because no matter what he achieved, he felt that he wasn't good enough and that he was putting on a front. After a recent promotion, he was left with sleepless nights and frequent feelings of anxiety throughout the day. He would panic whenever he was asked to do something at work and found it was impacting on his ability to hold on to a relationship. More than just anxiety, this was a self esteem issue that needed to be worked on. After 6 sessions my clients sleep had drastically improved and he was able to cope better at work.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterised by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness,  fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by a combination of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions). Symptoms may include repetitive handwashing; extensive hoarding; preoccupation with sexual or aggressive impulses; aversion to odd numbers; and nervous habits, such as opening a door and closing it a certain number of times before one enters or leaves a room.

These symptoms can be awkward, alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and financial distress. The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and come across to others as psychotic. However, OCD sufferers generally recognise their thoughts and subsequent actions as irrational, and this in itself causes further distress.
 

OCD is a complex mental issue that will take time to resolve.

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