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Anxiety
Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder
Panic attacks
Phobia
Depression
Stress Management
Pain Management
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Hypnosis for Dental Procedures
Illness
Surgery
When we are struck by sudden fear, avoid situations others do not, and/or feel caught up in compulsions or obsessive thinking, we know anxiety has trapped us. There are well-tested approaches and techniques you can learn to return to freedom.
Use this checklist to see if you may have an anxiety disorder.
Do you:
Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder
Sometimes after an accident or a sudden trauma or shock, you can be left with unpleasant symptoms and memories. You may dream about it, relive it and be unable to get it out of your mind. You may feel fearful and depressed and may tend to avoid situations that remind you of the accident or shock. You may feel withdrawn and have trouble concentrating. This is called post-traumatic stress disorder. You can learn to overcome this debilitating condition with cognitive-behavioral and hypnotherapeutric treatment approaches.
Panic Attacks
Some of the symptoms of panic attacks include a sudden, overwhelming fear that comes on without reason or warning. The terror can be paralyzing. You can experience the fear of the onset of death or heart attack. There are well-tested approaches and techniques you can learn to return to freedom.
Physical symptoms of panic attacks can include:
Phobia
You have a phobia if you have a tendency to avoid various situations. You recognize that your fear is excessive and unreasonable, but that doesn’t help. You still avoid tunnels, bridges, elevators, flying, driving, enclosed places, and situations like public speaking (talking in class, presenting at a business, making a speech).
A combined approach using hypnotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy will give you tools to control and reduce the fear/panic that you feel in the situation you want to avoid. The cognitive-behavioral approach will be part of your program to gradually approach in small steps the situation you had formerly avoided until at last you attain freedom from fear.
Depression
If your mood is sad and you are experiencing the following symptoms, you are probably experiencing depression:
Together we can evaluate your mood state and develop a treatment plan to control and reduce depression. We can consider cognitive-behavioral approaches to detect and change negative self-talk and attitudes that encourage depression. We can also encourage cardiovascular exercise and develop communication skills to gain support from others.
Stress Management
Our busy lives often lead to stress-related symptoms that reduce our productivity and enjoyment. A number of simple body-mind approaches can help tame the stress monster and allow us more peace and enjoyment. When stress is reduced, you can:
Live a healthy, active, longer
life.
Experience good feelings
about yourself.
Re-energize yourself to handle
day-to-day challenges more easily and productively.
Increase the quality of your
work.
Communicate more smoothly.
Enjoy your leisure more completely.
Control the need to bite
nails, twitch or use addictive substances.
Sleep better.
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Pain Management
Pain often pushes us to a passive, depressed, irritable state. A number of well-tested approaches can lead to relief, increased activity, productivity and enjoyment. You can:
Relaxation, visualization and positive self-talk can help you reduce and control pain and gain more freedom. You can:
Experience a sense of control.
Improve communication with
family and friends.
Re-energize yourself with
relaxation techniques.
Reduce stress.
Control worry.
Increase your physical comfort.
Increase the quality of your
life.
Live a more active life.
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Today women fill many roles in life simultaneously: mother, wife, professional. Time is at a premium. There are too many jobs to do. As a result, life is often intense and stressful. Add to this a nine-month gestation, labor, delivery and post-partum period, and it can be overwhelming.
Training for gestation, labor, delivery and post-partum recovery can enhance your ability to bounce back from the all-encompassing experience of pregnancy and childbirth. You can:
Increase your ability to
relax.
Increase you ability to conserve
energy.
Reduce morning sickness.
Reduce the fear-pain-tension
syndrome.
Manage pain in any part of
the body.
Somewhat shorten the first
stage of labor.
Reduce nausea and vomiting
in postoperative recovery.
Quicken the healing process
postoperatively.
Stimulate lactation by direct
suggestion.
Hypnosis does not depress the respiratory or circulatory function in either mother or child. Hypnosis does not place any extra stress on the liver and kidneys. Hypnosis does not interfere in any way with the normal mechanism of labor.
Hypnosis for Dental Procedures
Do you know of anyone who smiles when they say, "I have a dentist’s appointment"? There’s every reason not to. It is a threatening, stressful experience that can affect your entire body before, during and after the procedure. There are well-tested hypnotic approaches and techniques you can learn to:
Experience a sense of control.
Increase your ability to
relax.
Increase your ability to
conserve energy.
Reduce stress and control
worry.
Increase your physical comfort
and manage pain.
Shorten the "real time" experience
while in the dentist’s chair.
Walk away calm and relaxed.
Return to normal activities
more quickly.
Illness
Hypnosis is a useful tool in helping to bolster the immune system. Through visualization techniques, you can help your immune system fight off invaders on a cellular level. In addition, hypnosis provides a relaxed state so that stress chemical levels can be reduced. Most importantly, hypnosis can clue the brain to generate natural pain killers, endorphins. As a result you can:
With well-tested hypnotic techniques, you can:
Experience a sense of control.
Improve communication with
family and friends.
Re-energize yourself with
relaxation techniques.
Reduce stress.
Control worry.
Increase your physical comfort.
Increase the quality of your
life.
Live a more active life.
Surgery
Recent research suggest that fear or distress before surgery is associated with a slower and more complicated recovery. Stress delays wound healing, and pain affects the immune system.
Stress affects the body before, during and after the surgery. Before, anxiety, pessimism and fear can lead to a preliminary reduced immune response and the need for more anesthesia. The same is true during surgery. It has been found that, afterwards, fear, pessimism and negative habits (smoking, drinking and poor nutrition) can alter wound healing and increase the risk for infection. Distress and anxiety can also contribute to increased pain and difficulty sleeping after surgery.
In preparation for the surgery, a customized hypnotic script is created to facilitate a positive experience. Preoperative agendas are quite distinctive. Some individuals find it necessary to concentrate on pain management. Others are frightened of anesthesia. Some want to concentrate on developing a script to promote an enhanced recovery process. Many find coping with fear paramount.
On an emotional level, you can be taught to deal with the fear of surgery. This includes the fear regarding anesthesia, the surgical procedures, the fact that the body will be "invaded" and the ability to recover.
People undergoing specialized surgical procedures, such as coronary artery bypass, can benefit from self-hypnosis relaxation techniques. Those who have had the training are more relaxed postoperatively and require significantly less pain medication than those who have not.
When you prepare for surgery, you can:
Increase your ability to
relax.
Increase your ability to
conserve energy.
Reduce the fear of anesthesia.
Minimize stress and tension.
Manage pain in any part of
your body.
Quicken the healing process
postoperatively.
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