Help with Panic Attacks (Anxiety Attacks)

Hypnosis / Hypnotherapy for Panic Attacks.

Everybody gets anxious from time to time and this is perfectly normal.

However, when a panic attack strikes, it feels anything but normal. If you've suffered a panic attack, you'll understand the terror and anxiety they cause. They're very common and symptoms include palpitations, shortness of breath - hyperventilating, sweating and feelings of loss of control. Every symptom you experience during an attack is a natural, harmless part of your body's fight-or-flight reaction – although it doesn’t feel like that.

The first attack is always terrifying and many people think they are having a heart attack and some even feel like they are ‘dying’.

A panic attack can happen completely 'out of the blue', and often occur for little or no apparent reason. Once a panic attack has happened in a situation, the mind can quickly learn to fear the situation itself. You begin to 'fear the fear'. The panic response can be 'conditioned' to be triggered by the situation or environment.

The onset of a panic attack is usually very sudden, and typically, a panic attack will last usually between 20 and 30 minutes.

A panic attack is usually defined as a period of intense fear, accompanied by a series of psychological or bodily symptoms.

Many people have completely recovered from panic attacks with the help of hypnotherapy, and you can too.

The symptoms of a panic attack.

The symptoms of a panic attack will vary from person to person, but can include any of the following:

• Shaking
• Difficulty in breathing, or shortness of breath (Dyspnoea)
• Abnormally rapid heartbeat (Tachycardia)
• Excessive sweating (Hyperhydrosis)
• Chest tightness
• Chest pain
• Abnormal sensations of the skin (Paraesthesia)
• Raised blood pressure (Hypertension)
• Tension and apprehension
• The feeling that 'something terrible' is going to happen.
• A specific fear of death

Hypnotherapy as a treatment for panic attacks

Panic attacks are very treatable, and respond very well to a course of 'Pure' Hypnoanalysis.

We go on a journey of your mind and let go of the built up emotion that is causing your subconscious mind to be unduly stressed. Once the internal subconscious stress needle goes down to normal levels then you are well able to handle the stresses of everyday life, without ever again going into the alarming range that can trigger a panic attack.

Panic Attacks (Anxiety attacks) CAN Be Helped!

Why Hypnoanalysis is so successful at treating panic

The cause of panic attacks are generally created in a person’s mind in childhood (though the symptoms may not appear for many years). The fearful response is caused by the sufferer bottling up some strong emotions. The only way to resolve the panic - is to release the bottled up emotions that are causing it.

These bottled up emotions are stored in the person’s subconscious mind so the sufferer has no conscious awareness of them. In our formative years (with only a child’s resourcefulness) bottling the emotions up was the best plan of action for dealing with difficult strong emotion. It was done by our subconscious mind so we weren't overwhelmed by the emotions, and could get on with growing up.

However, now that you are grown up you do have the resourcefulness of an adult and can easily face and resolve those emotions that were too much for the child. Your subconscious mind wants you to do this and will do everything in its power to encourage you to resolve the internal conflict (emotion) - including giving you the symptom! It's as if that symptom is a signal telling you that there's something inside you ready to be resolved. Most other types of therapy cannot gain access to these 'locked away' emotions and experiences, whereas Pure Hypno-Analysis can.

The process of Hypnoanalysis requires a strong bond of trust and rapport being created between the therapist, and the client. Over a period of about eight sessions, we slowly and effortlessly link thoughts and memories back through time (using a process of 'free association') until we come to the bottled up emotions. When we release these emotions, the excessive fear/panic is resolved forever.

Come Along For a Chat

To find out more about it, you can come along and meet with me in my clinic in Rathfarnham for an initial consultation, and we can have a chat about the problems you're having.

It's free of charge and very informal.

Success, joy and wellbeing to you!

Ailish McGrath
Private Clinic - Rathfarnham, Dublin 16
Ph: 01-4954841
info@IChooseToHeal.com