What are anxiety and panic attacks?

A panic attack is an intense feeling of fear, a feeling of impending doom. Sufferers may feel that they are going crazy or that they are on the verge of a heart attack.

Although panic attacks can feel terrifying at the time, and you may feel as if you are going to die, they are not dangerous. In fact it is just an increased flow of adrenalin surging through your body.

A high level of adrenalin is not in itself a bad thing, because it can give you the extra energy needed to deal with difficult demands and challenges, as in the "flight or fight" response. The damage, however, is done when the levels of adrenalin don't fall naturally after the stressful event is over, and then the stress and tension can become prolonged.

The NHS identifies the symptoms of anxiety as being many and varied, for example:

4Feeling on edge
4Restlessness
4Sense of dread
4Difficulty concentrating
4Irritability
4Impatience
4Being easily distracted
4Dizziness
4Lethargy
4Pins and needles
4Irregular heart beat (palpitations)
4Muscle aches
4Dry mouth
4Excessive sweating
4Shortness of breath
4Stomach ache
4Headache
4Diarrhoea
4Excessive thirst
4Frequent urination
4Painful or missed periods
4Difficulty in falling, or staying, asleep

Some or part of this descibtion can happen with an attack.

Again, the symptoms are; nervousness, restlessness, fatigue, panicky feelings, racing heart, palpitations, fear of a particular object or situation. At sometime we will all feel some kind of anxiety or stress during our life.

Perhaps your issues are more long term or pervasive and you have found that anxiety is having a limiting effect upon your life. Maybe you are having panic attacks. Perhaps you are worried all the time and don't understand why?
Or you would like to remove and resolve all future issues in relation to your anxiety?
In these circumstances it is likely that you would benefit most from a course of analytical hypnotherapy (hypnoanalysis).
This type of therapy would provide you with all the benefits of hypnosis with suggestion therapy, whilst also helping you to fully resolve your anxieties, leaving you free to enjoy a more fulfilled and better quality life in the future.

Treating anxiety using hypnoanalysis can be vey effective and issues can usually be resolved within 8 to 12 sessions.

E-mail: stephen@spalding-hypnotherapy.co.uk