Treating anxiety disorders in Cambridge

Hypnotherapy can resolve your anxiety disorders once and for all

At the Cambridge hypnotherapy practice anxiety disorders are treated using analytical therapy. This is an advanced type hypnosis combined with psychotherapy techniques also known as hypnoanalysis, both Stephen and Elaine have been trained in this type of hypnotherapy and have helped many clients suffering from a wide range of anxiety disorders.

What is anxiety?

Feeling anxious in certain situations is not only the correct response, but it can be life-saving. For example, it’s good to feel anxious if you see a car hurtling towards you out of control as this internal anxiety would create the necessary physical responses and adrenalin to get out of the way without a second thought.

However, some people feel anxious when there is no real reason to feel this way. This can affect people in a number of ways: emotionally, psychologically and physically and, in some people, experiencing anxiety over a long period of time can lead to panic attacks or even depression.

Anxiety sufferers may relate to the following

	Become obsessed with certain things, people or events
	Focus constantly on “worst outcomes”
	Find difficulty in sleeping
	Feel they are not achieving their full potential
	Dislike being the centre of attention

It is extremely important that anyone experiencing these physical symptoms should consult their doctor as they may indicate an underlying medical condition.

Anxiety is the underlying factor when dealing phobias

Chronic anxiety can also lead to phobias, one of the most common of which is a dislike of being the centre of attention or being put on the spot, having to speak in public or do presentations This phobia is known as social phobia.

Other phobia's linked to anxiety

	Fear of Enclosed spaces - Claustrophobia
	Fear of Open spaces - Agaraphobia
	Fear of Flying - Aviatophobia
	Fear of Spiders - Arachnophobia
	Fear of Snakes - Ophidiophobia
	Fear of using the Toilet - Shy bladder
	Fear of Needles - Aichmophobia
	Fear of being Sick - Emetophobia

Anxiety is a natural feeling important to our survival

Most of these symptoms are created through the body’s “fight and flight” response which is one of the body’s most basic defence mechanisms. It is vital to our safety and security and so naturally it is extremely powerful. As human beings we developed this response when the world was a much more physically threatening place. We had to make instant decisions in our daily encounters about whether we were going to attack someone or something to defend ourselves or to get food (fight mechanism) or whether we needed to escape from someone or something that was threatening us and was more powerful than we were (flight mechanism). 

In any threatening situation the body produces powerful chemicals including adrenalin, nor-adrenalin and cortisone. These chemicals have a huge impact on the whole body increasing heart beat, muscle power, lung capacity, dilating pupils, reducing saliva, slowing down the digestive system and closing down the sexual response. Once the danger is over and the system has reacted to the danger, by either flight or fight, then another set of chemicals are released which returns the body back to a normal healthy state.

The Flight and Fight mechanism has served us well for many thousands of years and still does in situations that we find threatening or dangerous.

So, why does this go wrong?
There are times when, without our being consciously aware of the reason, the fight and flight mechanism is activated but doesn’t switch off. If this occurs over a long period of time, the chemicals released during the process will start to impact on us emotionally, physically and psychologically. In this case, the cause is likely to be a more deep-seated emotional issue -something buried deep down which is unresolved and is creating anxiety. The subconscious responds to this anxiety in exactly the same way as if it were a real threat. Once the source of this emotion can be found and dealt with, the anxiety disappears along with the other symptoms.

Pure Hypnoanalysis enables you to find the source of  this anxiety. It has been shown to be the most successful therapy for resolving anxiety and all deep-seated emotional disorders permanently.