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Get Rid of Anxiety, Fears & Phobias
"Fear is nothing more than your utter faith in the wrong thing" All you want to know about Anxieties Anxiety Disorders Origins Of Fear Common Fears Is Fear Ever Useful? Fear of the Fear The Advantages of Hypnotherapy What Causes Anxiety Confronting Your Fears in Hypnosis A List of Phobias Click here to order a tape Eliminate Anxiety Click here to order an audio tape (or CD) Get Rid of Anxiety All you want to know about Phobias and AnxietiesAnxiety can be caused by a medical condition. Hypoglycemia, hypo-thyroid can cause an anxiety attack. People with atherosclerosis, or brain tumor, or all kinds of cardio-vascular problems may be affected by panic attacks, anxieties and various fears. People with asthmas are likely to be fearful and anxious. Emphysema and the like conditions can cause various sorts of anxiety. Medical conditions can cause depression, personality disorders, nicotine and alcohol, and drug addictions. In addition, the medication, which such patient may be currently taking may affect the moods and add to anxiety and phobias feelings. So before you address the phobia that you may think you have, please check with you medical doctor for possible side-effects of the medications. And finally, environmental exposure, living or working in an environment of pollution or stress can cause anxiety disorders of various kinds. After you have done a complete medical check up and eliminated all medical problems that may be causing your anxieties, let us discuss the still persisting irrational fears, which impair your life. Vice versa, a medical condition can be caused by the high level of anxiety. Our brain is affected first by many and most conditions and experiences. After one had experienced a turmoil flight in bad weather conditions, or heard on the news about the AA flight 11 destroying the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York in 2000, one may develop a fear of flying and an expressed anxiety symptoms to avoid situation including flying. Such anxious behavior at the thought of flying would be called avoidance behavior. So we stop flying altogether. This is where hypnosis can help you. Please read on. To strengthen one's defenses against irrational fears and phobias one must work toward becoming physically fit. We always start working toward successful release from the anxieties by supporting ourselves with a little homework: physical exercises producing endorphins and flooding your body with useful energy producing chemicals, won't allow you to stay in a state of anxious depression. Instead, you will begin to feel energized and enthusiastic about life, which in many cases helps decrease and may completely eliminate fears, phobias and anxieties. One must spend about 30 minutes a day outside in a day-light, walking or just enjoying the day. SAD is a common case scenario of seasonal affected disorder, when one may suffer from a lack of sunshine. In the winter, we see many more cases of depression and anxiety. And finally, cutting down on cigarettes, caffeine and TV may help too. Instead, spending time in conversation with friends, walking in the park or visiting a museum, meeting new people and picking up a hobby, is a wonderful way toward cure from anxious behavior and fears. One must also be aware of the amount of vitamins they need to take in each day, including vitamin K - a lack of which can create anxiety and hypokalimia, as well as potassium, - a lack of this one can cause a muscle spasm, and lead to hyperventilation (heavy breathing) and panic attack. To Top  Anxiety DisordersNearly 1 in 10 Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are chronic, irrational, and can intensify if untreated. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) identifies five anxiety disorders:
To Top Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD):Approximately 3 to 4 percent of the American population suffer from GAD. They chronically worry and are tense out of proportion to the actual events in their lives. People with GAD are often less impaired than sufferers of other anxiety disorders. They usually have sleep disorders and difficulty relaxing, tend to feel tired, have trouble concentrating, and often startle easily. GAD generally comes on gradually, sometimes beginning as early as childhood or adolescence, and symptoms can diminish with age. To Top Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderApproximately 2 percent of the population suffer from OCD. About one-third of adult cases begin in childhood. Sufferers of OCD experience uncontrollable anxious thoughts (obsessions) and/or ritual behavior (compulsions). A person is diagnosed with OCD when compulsive activities consume at least an hour a day, are very distressing, and interfere with daily life. To Top Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderPTSD is characterized by persistent, frightening thoughts and memories that follow a terrifying event. Any traumatic incident can trigger PTSD and therefore it can affect anyone, although recent research indicates women are more prone to developing PTSD than are men. The NIMH estimates that approximately 4 percent of the American population will experience symptoms of PTSD sometime during their lives. Symptoms typically begin within 3 months of the traumatic incident, although they can begin years later. To Top PhobiasThe NIMH estimates that 4 to 5 percent of Americans have a significant phobia. Phobias are intense, irrational fears that lead to the avoidance of the thing or situation feared. Some childhood specific phobias may disappear before adulthood. A social phobia is an intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations. Social phobias usually appear between the 15th and 20th years although they may begin in childhood. To Top Panic DisorderAccording to the NIMH 3 to 6 million Americans, approximately two-thirds of them women, suffer panic disorders. Panic can appear at any age although it usually begins in young adulthood. Some people experience one panic attack and never have another, while others develop full-blown panic disorder. Panic disorder most always includes agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is so common that it is often considered a separate anxiety disorder rather than a phobia. The word agoraphobia means fear of open spaces, but the underlying fear of agoraphobia is the fear of panic attacks. To Top Origins of FearOne of the primary reasons people seek therapy is the need to deal with fear reactions. We're all subject to fear. Many originate during childhood when undeveloped reasoning ability allows for developing fears of the unknown. Fears do manifest in adulthood through traumatic experience, but most will prove to have originated in early, impressionable years. To Top Common FearsFlying, high places, rejection, failure (or success), pain exposure, poor performance (sports, scholastic, job, theatrical, sexual), death, the unknown, contamination, blood, animals (spiders, sharks etc.), water, impending danger, darkness, open spaces, closed spaces and loss of control. There are many others, all of which vary in by degree of severity. To Top Is Fear Ever Useful?Yes! Fears are not always a bad thing. In fact, fear is valuable if it serves a useful purpose, such as creating caution or being prepared for emergencies, etc. But when fear results in intense and irrational behaviors, that threaten a person's well-being, it merits therapeutic attention. A "hang-up"" becomes a fear when it becomes noticeably disturbing and begins to affect behavior. A fear becomes a "phobia" when it reaches the point of being triggered by unknown or irrational factors, and when it is experienced so frequently that it affects one's normal activities. The inability to understand the repressed conflict that causes the reaction will often result in uncontrollable or unreasonable behavior. To Top Fear of the FearPhobia is present when a person is threatened by something that does not in reality present a life threat. Yet the reaction is the same as if it were real. The fear generates more fear, and the situation cannot be confronted in a calm state, so the victim makes every effort to avoid it. Specific fears often emanate from apprehension of impending danger. Feelings of anxiety and panic tend to manifest into the foreboding of approaching disaster... the source of which is not understood. The fear of loss of control is primitive and is likely to be a common element and basic cause in all phobia cases. The progressive development of anxiety and phobic reactions follow (to varying degrees) four phases:
To Top The Advantages of HypnotherapyHypnotherapy can facilitate:
To Top What Causes Anxiety?Studies indicate that anxiety disorders can have both a physical and psychological component, and they can be hereditary. Symptoms are apparent, but the causes may be unknown. The condition which creates the fear is a threat to the victim because it is unresolved. Exposing the cause can diminish the anxiety associated with the fear by taking it out of the unknown so that rational suggestions can be used to alleviate symptoms. To Top Confronting Your Fears in HypnosisOnce the causes are revealed, the technique of systematic desensitization may be the treatment of choice. Systematic desensitization is a well organized procedure to bring the psyche back into balance, eliminating the fears by hypnotic confrontation. The fears are met and faced through the subconscious mind. Repeated confrontation causes deterioration of the fear symptoms and increases the ability to face and deal with past traumatic experiences without apprehension, which the conscious mind then accepts. Age regression can also be a highly effective technique for uncovering causes. Click here to order an audio tape (or CD) Get Rid of Anxiety To Top |
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