Cognitive hypnotherapy / Hypnosis in Northampton can treat panic attacks and anxiety:

Anxiety and panic attacks:

Everybody feels anxious and tense from time to time and this is perfectly normal and can be useful. Anxiety is an appropriate response when you are faced with a stressful situation. But many people experience excessive anxiety and worry that is out of proportion to the stressful situation or for which they can often find no reason.

 

General anxiety disorder (GAD) is defined as being in a constant state of high anxiety. High levels of anxiety can be so bad that they can dominate your life and make you feel that you are continuously on edge. Severe anxiety can be extremely debilitating. When you are anxious you release 'stress' hormones such as adrenaline (often known as the fight of flight response) and this causes a wide range of physical symptoms.

Typical physical and psychological symptoms of anxiety might include:

  1. Feeling on edge
  2. Tense
  3. Restlessness
  4. Sense of dread
  5. Difficulty concentrating
  6. Irritability
  7. Impatience
  8. Being easily distracted
  9. Dizziness
  10. Lethargy
  11. Pins and needles
  12. Irregular heart beat (palpitations)
  13. Muscle aches
  14. Dry mouth
  15. Excessive sweating
  16. Shortness of breath
  17. Stomach ache
  18. Headache
  19. Diarrhoea
  20. Excessive thirst
  21. Frequent urination
  22. Painful or missed periods
  23. Difficulty in falling, or staying, asleep

 

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Panic attacks, stress and anxiety can be treated with cognitive therapy and hypnotherapy in Wellingborough, Northampton:

Many people who suffer from anxiety, real time anxiety and anticipation anxiety also have panic attacks. A panic attack is caused by severe, internal anxiety. Anxiety is described as being inside the person but outside of their control. Panic attacks are typically very sudden and usually start with intense feelings of fear and anxiety. 

DSM-IV  criteria for diagnosing a panic attack. The symptoms of a panic attack as defined by the DSM - IV (diagnostic statistical manual) include:

  1. Palpitations, pounding heart or accelerated heart rate.
  2. Sweating
  3. trembling or shaking
  4. Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering.
  5. feeling of choking
  6. Chest pain or discomfort
  7. Nausea or abdominal distress
  8. Feeling dizzy, unsteady, light headed or faint.
  9. derealisation(feelings of unreality) or depersonalisation (being detached from oneself)
  10. Fear of losing control or going crazy.
  11. Fear of dying
  12. Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)
  13. Chills or hot flushes.

Panic attacks can be very frightening and debilitating, especially if they happen frequently, and many people with panic disorder develop depression.

How psychotherapy can help:

Evidence based psychotherapy is all about YOU, really understanding what makes you tick. I specialise in helping people create a positive and powerful mindset. Mindset training is about empowerment and taking back control of your anxiety and panic attacks.

Psychotherapy can give you that level of understanding and self insight that can fundamentally change how you think and feel about yourself. Mindset training can empower you to take back control of your panic attacks.

Panic attacks are about a fear of being out of control. Psychotherapy can show you how you are creating, driving and sustaining your panic attacks and anxiety.

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