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Anxiety
Treatment for Anxiety and Depression at NoLimits in Byfleet, Kew, Guildford and Harley Street is a unique form of hypnosis or Hypnotherapy called Pure Hypnoanalysis. Anxiety and panic attacks respond extremely well to Pure Hypnoanalysis which is a highly effective technique that is painless, fast and safe. Because the emotions causing anxieties are completely locked away in the depths of the subconscious mind the sufferer has no conscious awareness of them.

Unfortunately most other therapies have no way of accessing trapped emotions and experiences and tend more to try and get you to face your fears which usually only helps for a little while. Pure Hypnoanalysis however creates and access to the unconscious mind helping you to free bottled up emotions until they are resolved and released, using a process called ‘Free Association’. When these bottled up emotions are released, the anxiety is gone forever. Pure Hypnoanalysis takes between 8-12 sessions.

Do you suffer from:-anxiety attacks or panic attacks or just feel stressful in certain situations? Then read on...
Emotionally, anxiety causes a sense of dread or panic and physically causes nausea, diarrhoea, and chills. Behaviourally, both voluntary and involuntary behaviours' may arise directed at escaping or avoiding the source of anxiety and often maladaptive, being most extreme in anxiety disorders. However, anxiety is not always pathological or maladaptive: it is a common emotion along with fear, anger, sadness, and happiness, and In panic disorder, a person suffers from brief attacks of intense terror and apprehension that cause trembling and shaking, confusion, dizziness, nausea, difficulty breathing, and feelings of impending doom or a situation that would be embarrassing.

people with panic disorder have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning. They can't predict when an attack will occur, and many develop intense anxiety between episodes, worrying when and where the next one will strike. In between times there is a persistent, lingering worry that another attack could come any minute.

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Generalized anxiety disorder is a common chronic disorder that affects twice as many women as men and can lead to considerable impairment (Brawman-Mintzer & Lydiard, 1996, 1997). As the name implies, generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by long-lasting anxiety that is not focused on any particular object or situation. In other words it is unspecific or free-floating. People with this disorder feel afraid of something but are unable to articulate the specific fear. They fret constantly and have a hard time controlling their worries.

The American Psychiatric Association (2000) defines a panic attack as fear or discomfort that arises abruptly and peaks in 10 minutes or less, and can occasionally last hours.

How Can Pure Hypnoanalysis Help?
Hypnoanalysis (noun): "a therapeutic technique in which a client is relaxed into hypnosis, and using free-association, sets out to release and resolve bottled-up emotions, conflicts and anxieties.

Pure (adjective): unmodified, untainted, simple, unaffected, true, clean.
Pure Hypno-analysis is Faster, more Effective and more Empowering,
than any other therapy available today.

This form of hypnotherapy can TOTALLY RESOLVE the CAUSE of unconscious anxieties - leaving the sufferer free of their symptoms for life!

Pure Hypnoanalysis usually takes 8-12 weekly sessions, lasting about an hour each.

Specific Symptoms of Panic Disorder:

A person with panic disorder experiences recurrent unexpected Panic Attacks and at least one of the attacks has been followed by 1 month (or more) of one or more of the following:

A panic attack is a discrete period of intense fear or discomfort, in which four (or more) of the following symptoms developed abruptly and reached a peak within 10 minutes:
Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate
· Sweating
· Trembling or shaking
· Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering
· Feeling of choking
· Chest pain or discomfort
· Nausea or abdominal distress
· Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint
· Derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself)
· Fear of losing control or going crazy
· Fear of dying
· Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)
· Chills or hot flushes
Panic attacks often occur in people who are diagnosed with Panic Disorder.

References:
American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH Publication No. 95-3879 (1995)

Social

Anxiety

Social phobia -- also known as social anxiety disorder -- is an intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations, specifically of embarrassing yourself in front of other people. It often runs in families and may be accompanied by depression or alcoholism. Social phobia often begins around early adolescence or even younger."

Social phobia is the third largest psychological problem in the world today according to research by the NIMH.

If you suffer from social phobia, you tend to think that other people are very competent in public and that you are not. Small mistakes you make may seem to you much more exaggerated than they really are. Blushing itself may seem painfully embarrassing, and you feel as though all eyes are focused on you. You may be afraid of being with people other than those closest to you. Or your fear may be more specific, such as feeling anxious about giving a speech, talking to a boss or other authority figure, or dating. The most common social phobia is a fear of public speaking. Sometimes social phobia involves a general fear of social situations such as parties. More rarely it may involve a fear of using a public restroom, eating out, talking on the phone, or writing in the presence of other people, such as when signing a cheque.

Although this disorder is often thought of as shyness, the two are not the same. Shy people can be very uneasy around others, but they don't experience the extreme anxiety in anticipating a social situation, and they don't necessarily avoid circumstances that make them feel self-conscious. In contrast, people with social phobia aren't necessarily shy at all. They can be completely at ease with people most of the time, but particular situations, such as walking down an aisle in public or making a speech, can give them intense anxiety. Social phobia disrupts normal life, interfering with career or social relationships. For example, a worker can turn down a job promotion because he can't give public presentations. The dread of a social event can begin weeks in advance, and symptoms can be quite debilitating.

People with social phobia are aware that their feelings are irrational. Still, they experience a great deal of dread before facing the feared situation, and they may go out of their way to avoid it. Even if they manage to confront what they fear, they usually feel very anxious beforehand and are intensely uncomfortable throughout. Afterwards, the unpleasant feelings may linger, as they worry about how they may have been judged or what others may have thought or observed about them.

Specific Symptoms of this Disorder:

· A marked and persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others. The individual fears that he or she will act in a way (or show anxiety symptoms) that will be humiliating or embarrassing. Note: In children, there must be evidence of the capacity for age-appropriate social relationships with familiar people and the anxiety must occur in peer settings, not just in interactions with adults

· Exposure to the feared social situation almost invariably provokes anxiety, which may take the form of a situationally bound or situationally predisposed Panic Attack. Note: In children, the anxiety may be expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, or shrinking from social situations with unfamiliar people.

· The person recognizes that the fear is excessive or unreasonable. Note: In children, this feature may be absent.

· The feared social or performance situations are avoided or else are endured with intense anxiety or distress.

· The avoidance, anxious anticipation, or distress in the feared social or performance situation(s) interferes significantly with the person'

normal routine, occupational (academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, or there is marked distress about having the phobia.

· In individuals under age 18 years, the duration is at least 6 months.

· The fear or avoidance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition and is not better accounted for by another mental disorder.

· If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in the first criteria is unrelated to it, e.g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.

Some of the symptoms of social phobia are:

•Feeling panicky at the thought of becoming the centre of attention when you are with other people
•Feeling as though everybody is looking at you and noticing what you are doing
•Not wanting to go into shops or restaurants
•Being afraid to perform in front of others in case you make a fool of yourself, for example in a job interview, meeting or public speaking
•Having a tremendous fear of ‘being put on the spot’
•Stuttering or stammering
•Have a pre-occupation with how you look
•Fear of failure or not being good enough
•Blushing, or a fear of blushing
•Lack of confidence
•Fearful of writing in front of others
•Working too hard to please others
•Shy bladder (men) – not being able to pee when on the spot
•Performance anxiety when having sex
•Feeling anxious when making phone calls
•Fear of being humiliated
•Feeling fearful when eating in front of people
Social phobia responds really well to hypnoanalysis which is a highly effective technique that is painless, fast and safe. These emotions causing this phobia are completely locked away in the depths of the subconscious mind so the phobic has no conscious awareness of them. Unlike hypnoanalysis, where you are talking through the bottled up emotions until they are resolved and released, most of the other therapies have no way of accessing these emotions and experiences. They tend more to try and get you to face your fears which usually only helps for a little while. Hypnoanalysis requires a strong bond of trust and rapport be created between the therapist and the client. Over a period of between 8-12 sessions, we slowly link thoughts and memories back through time using a process called ‘Free Association’ until we reach the bottled up emotions causing the phobia. When these are released, the phobia is gone forever.

Depression: what is it? & who suffers from it?

AND How can hypno-analysis help me?

Depression.

Depression is extremely debilitating and because it has no outward symptoms, people often experience difficulties at work and home because others expect them to 'snap out of it'. Depression is an illness which affects not only the individual, but also their family, their friends, their employment, their self esteem, and ultimately, inhibit the quality of their life.

Depression is very common. Almost anybody can develop the illness; depression, like any illness, can strike for no apparent reason. However, it is often difficult for doctors to tell the difference between feeling gloomy and having a depressive illness. Many aspects are taken into consideration including diet/nutrition and life style when diagnosing depression, therefore, only after assessing the severity of the low mood, and other associated symptoms and the duration of the problem a diagnosis is made.

Modern brain scans that can look at how 'hard' the brain is working have shown that some areas of the brain (such as at the front) are not working as well as normal. Unfortunately there is no brain scan or blood test that can be used to diagnose when a person has a depressive illness.

Many people with depression go through life without seeking help, believing that depression is just 'part of them', but in truth, depression is very treatable.

People with depression often feel that they are 'alone', whereas in-fact this is far from the case, with as many as one in six people suffering with some form of depression at some point in their lives.

Depression

Who Gets it?

Depression is very common.

It is recorded that:

· Between 5 and 10 per cent of the population are suffering from the illness to some extent at any one time.

· Over a lifetime you have a 20 per cent, or one in five, chance of having an episode of depression.

· Women are twice as likely to get depression as men.