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Anxiety and Panic
The word anxiety is derived from the Latin word 'angere' meaning to choke, or strangle.
Anxiety is a general term for several disorders that cause nervousness, fear, apprehension, worry and panic. These disorders affect how we feel and behave, and they can manifest real physical symptoms. Mild anxiety is vague and unsettling, while severe anxiety can be extremely debilitating, having a serious impact on daily life. People often experience a general state of worry or fear before confronting something challenging such as a test, examination, recital, or interview. These feelings are easily justified and considered normal. Anxiety is considered a problem when symptoms interfere with a person's ability to sleep or otherwise function. Generally speaking, anxiety occurs when a reaction is out of proportion with what might be normally expected in a situation.
Anxiety Disorders can be classified into several more specific types.
The most common are briefly described below.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
Seperation Anxiety Disorder.
Obsessive Compulsion Disorder (OCD).
Social Anxiety Disorder.
Specific Phobias.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Agoraphobia.
Panic Disorder
Small Penis Syndrome / Locker Room Syndrome
- Homosexual Obsessive Compulsion Disorder (HOCD).
Homosexual obsessive-compulsive disorder (HOCD) is not a common term but has gained momentum in recent years. HOCD refers to the anxiety or doubt some individuals feel about their sexuality. HOCD sufferers are constantly worried that they might be gay, but are never able to resolve this internal issue. This is different than anxiety commonly experienced by gays in dealing with society's acceptance or lack thereof, rather HOCD implies internal confusion and fear about an individual's own sexual orientation.
What are common symptoms of anxiety?
People with anxiety disorders present a variety of physical symptoms in addition to
non-physical symptoms that characterise the disorders such as excessive, unrealistic worrying. Many of these symptoms are similar to those exhibited by a person suffering general illness, heart attack, or stroke, and this tends to further increase anxiety, by thinking they are seriously ill.
The following is a list of physical symptoms associated with anxiety disorders:
- Trembling
Nausea
Diarrhea
Headache
Backache
Heart palpitations
Numbness or "pins and needles" in arms, hands or legs
Sweating/flushing
Restlessness
Easily tired
Trouble concentrating
Confusion
Help is on hand!
Clinical Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, EFT and the Bach Flower Remedies are all excellent tools for helping clients overcome their anxiety, panic, fears and phobias.
We start by helping you to explore and find the "root cause" or the Initial Sensiting Event
(the the thing, situation or event that started it all off in the first place), which drives or triggers your anxiety, panic, fear or phobia.
Once we have found what the "root cause" is, and where it stems from, this will allow you to view it and experience it from a different perspective. This in turn will make you respond in a different way, and this will take away the anxiety and fear provoking responses of the past once and for all.
If you think about it: if we take away the thing that makes you feel anxious or scared, and you see it for what it is, you then have nothing to feel anxious or scared about anymore.
Tools in the box
Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy are excellent tools for exploring the past in a very gentle but powerful way, and are great tools for finding out the "root cause" of where your anxiety, panic and fear stems from.
You will also learn effective relaxation rechniques. These techniques will teach you how to manage your stress levels more effectively. This in turn will increase your sense of wellbeing, and bring feelings of calm and a sense of balance into your life.
You will also learn under Pycho-Education, about the body's archiac "fight, freeze and flight " response which is the primary physical reactor in anxiety, panic and fear. By understanding your body's responses during an anxiey or panic attack will take away the fear and thinking that you are ill, going mad or having a heart attack!
You will learn and practice distraction techniques in order for you to focus your mind on something other than your symptoms and what’s going on inside.
You will practice positive mental attitude, and to explore your life when you have overcome your anxiety, fear or panic.
EFT is an excellent technique for releasing "blocked" negative thoughts, feelings and emotions in a very gentle, but powerful way.
The Bach Flower Remedies are particularly good for dealing with negative mental and emotional states such as: grief, loss, change, bereavement, loneliness, despair, shyness, anxiety, panic, lack of confidence, known & unknown fears, phobias, anger, sadness just to name a few.
All these tried and tested positive and beneficial techniques will enable you to have new emotional responses and outlook on life. These will help YOU 'update' the brain with a new, more realistic responses and will help you to move on forward.
Contact Julie today to book your 30 minute, FREE no obligation consultation