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If you have anxiety and live in Sheffield you NEED to read this

This page is dedicated to the anxiety suffers in Sheffield who are looking for a solution. You are not alone. In fact, more than 1 in 10 people are likely to have a ‘disabling anxiety disorder’ at some stage in their life.

There are 1,569,000 people in Sheffield so in an average week, 261,500 people just like you will experience problems related to anxiety.

Don’t suffer in silence

There are many different ways of tackling anxiety and there is the potential for improvement. You just need to do something different to what you have done in the past.

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How could hypnotherapy help you achieve your goals?

Anxiety is a focus on the future combined with an overactive imagination that contemplates things being a way you don’t want them to be. Your brain can’t take the chance that what you are imagining isn’t really happening right now so the fight of flight response is triggered.

Hypnosis in Sheffield for anxiety could help you to interrupt this learned behaviour. This could be interrupted consciously using specific imagination and breathing based techniques.

Hypnotherapy could help you to bring about unconscious changes as well. This is where you are more how you would like to be without trying to be. Your behaviour just happens to be what you would like it to be without consciously trying to make it that way.

Quite often it can be a combination of both conscious and unconscious change.

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What is your unease based on?

Anxiety is the worrying about things that haven’t yet happened. It tends to be that people can be very anxious about things that have a very small chance of actually happening. In some cases, the low chance of something happening does nothing to reduce the amount of worry it causes.

Anxiety can be a totally normal and natural reaction in certain situations but when it has a negative impact on your life it is time to something about it.

hypnotherapy for anxiety can be a great way to bring about changes

Could feeling this unease actually be useful?

A study has shown that anxiety can actually be useful in some situations. Anxious people pick up on other people’s aggressive facial expressions faster than non-anxious people.

In this kind of social situation, anxiety helps but most of the time anxiety is not required to be at high levels. Hypnosis can help you reduce your stress levels.

What does it feel like when you’ve had those feelings of dread?

I’ve spoken to hundreds of people over the years who have been anxious and I am yet to meet two people who have experienced it identically. There are wide-ranging symptoms which may or may not occur when someone is experiencing anxiety or an anxiety attack.

What many people do experience as part of their anxiety is fear and worry that their symptoms are indicators of something more serious. People often think that they have heart problems because of the palpitations that sometimes happen. This can result in mobile monitoring being used over the course of a few days or weeks. The results from this testing is often the confirmation that there is no heart problem. They are told: “it’s just anxiety”.

This does not match in with their experience though. How could “just anxiety” cause that feeling that was SO unpleasant? It often leas to worry that the doctors have missed something which just fuels more anxiety.

Far from the diagnosis of “just anxiety” helping, it often makes things worse.

What causes the feelings of unease and dread in the first place?

Stress, phobias and panic are common sources of anxiety. All these boil down to what you think. If your thoughts are uncontrolled then anxiety is much more likely. People are creatures of habit. Some only realise that they have developed an unhealthy habit when it is beyond a point that feels manageable.

By then though there has been so much practice of this unhealthy behaviour that it has become familiar and expected, even though it is not helpful and can even be damaging.

What treatments are available?

There are many different treatments which range from medication to talking therapies. Hypnotherapy for anxiety, however, is one of the natural remedies for anxiety and could be the solution you have been looking for.

There are more details below about both medication and non-medication based solutions for anxiety.

Can hypnotherapy really make a difference?

Your anxiousness does a great job of undermining your confidence and sows seeds of doubt about your abilities to change. That is why hypnotherapy can be so effective because it is all about getting you back into that better place.

Many people ask “Does hypnosis work?” The short answer is “It could.” In “The Hypnotherapy Journal” Spring edition 2009 they published that hypnotherapy for anxiety, relating to asthma attacks, had “statistically significant superiority to a placebo.”

My work speaks for itself. To read the reviews of people just like you who were able to beat their anxiety have a look at the page dedicated to anxiety hypnotherapy reviews.

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It is an inappropriate heightened response

Anxiety is based on apprehension or fear about the future. An anxiety attack is a heightened response from the body that has been provoked by the mind. It is often in relation to a specific trigger and once that trigger is removed the anxiety passes.

The first thing people often notice when anxiousness hits is an increased heart rate or the speed of breathing increases. This change in heart rate or breathing can be seen as scary if it is unexpected and this can fuel the experience and amplify it.

What are the symptoms of an attack?

They are similar to the symptoms of anxiety just more extreme and noticeable. The symptoms for part of what is known as “panic disorder” so the things people experience during a panic attack or anxiety attack are similar.

There can be:

Palpitations
Sweatiness
Dizziness
Nausea
Chest pain
Pins and needles
Churning stomach

And the list could go on and on.

How to deal with an attack of uncontrolled thoughts

The first step it to tell yourself that the feelings will pass. Rather than trying to find distractions or to run away from the situation it can help to confront the feelings. Prove to yourself that they are not stronger than you, that you can ride it out and get back to a state of being in control.

How can you stop an anxiety attack by breathing?

Breathing is often one of the first things to change when anxiousness happens. Some people forget to breathe. Other people breathe shorter, faster breaths.

When you take control of your breathing and focus on all the little details of each breath as it happens then instead of focusing on the anxiety you are focusing on something that can dissolve the anxiety.

This technique uses elements of mindfulness which is an increased awareness of the present moment and an acceptance of what is happening. Mindfulness in itself can be a good thing to learn if you want to tackle anxiety.

What is the difference between an anxiety attack and a panic attack?

An anxiety attack is usually a response to a trigger and is a comparatively short-lived episode. When the trigger or situation is removed then the anxiety passes. While the feelings associated with the moment are often unpleasant they are not too extreme.

A panic attack happens with no conscious awareness of a reason for it, the symptoms are a lot more severe and many people think that they are having a heart attack or are about to die.

Is there a test so I can check if this is really anxiousness?

One of the better anxiety tests online is from the website Psychology Today. The test takes about 10 minutes to complete and will give you a better idea if the symptoms you have could be anxiety.

With a clearer understanding of the symptoms you have experienced, it makes it easier to move towards a solution that meets your needs.

What are the possible solutions to these feelings and thoughts?

If you go to a GP with your symptoms and they diagnose anxiety is is highly likely that rather than helping you to find a solution for the cause of the anxiety they will instead focus on treating the symptoms.

This is most commonly done with medication.

There are three main groups of medications that are commonly prescribed for anxiety symptoms.

Medications

Antidepressants

Being prescribed antidepressants for anxiety symptoms is a little concerning for some people and they are keen to point out that the medication is not for depression. The reason these drugs are often prescribed though is because when a person’s brain is experiencing depression it is doing similar things to a person who is anxious.

Antidepressants prescribed for anxiety include citalopram, fluoxetine, sertraline and fluvoxamine. It can take six weeks or more for some of these drugs to get to a point where they have an effect. There can also be some rather unpleasant side effects to using these drugs.

Benzodiazepines

Drugs in this category include Valium, diazepam, and lorazepam. GPs tend to prescribe these for a very short amount of time because they can be highly addictive and have the potential for side effects such as:

Blurred vision
Sleepiness
Memory problems

Beta Blockers

These drugs are often used to reduce high blood pressure or reduce heart palpitations. They can be used to treat a specific situation that might have caused anxiety, like a job interview or getting on an aeroplane.

Used for the treatment of high blood pressure and a racing heart, they can be effective for anxiety over something specific. For instance, if you were anxious over a future presentation or exam then beta blockers could be a good way of tackling anxiety symptoms.

For more information on anti-anxiety medication, there is a great page on panic-attacks.co.uk

Are there any treatments that don’t involve medication?

Medication is not the answer for everyone. Some people are fearful of the side effects of medication. There are several options when it comes to tackling anxiety without medication.

Hypnotherapy

The number one recommendation I have is hypnotherapy for anxiety. As a hypnotherapist, I would say that though! I have seen hypnosis for anxiety change people’s lives for the better and in some cases, anxiety can vanish overnight when you work with a skilled hypnotist.

A great hypnotherapist will be able to help you change your attitude, to change your focus and get the results you desire. If you would like to find out more about how I could help you to address anxiety using hypnotherapy just drop me a line.

CBT

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy has been successfully used to treat anxiety for some time. CBT is a conscious process that over the years has integrated several techniques from the world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which is closely related to hypnotherapy.

CBT is available through the NHS although the resources made available for this approach are limited so there could be an extensive waiting list if you want to tackle anxiety through CBT.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all the rage at the moment and rightly so. It is based on an increased awareness of the present moment and an acceptance of things as they are. This method involves observing thoughts rather than engaging with them. There are further benefits from the breathing techniques associated with the process.

The evidence base for the effectiveness of mindfulness is growing by the month as more resources are put into researching this field.

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