Hypnotherapy for Social Phobia
The Effects of Social Phobia (Social Anxiety), and the Use of Hypnosis to Treat Social Anxiety. This is the most common problem I deal with in my clinic in Rathfarnham. Social phobia (social anxiety, or social anxiety disorder) is one of the most common phobias around, and certainly one of the most responsive to analytical hypnotherapy. Social phobia revolves around a fear of how others might see you, what they think of you, and feeling that whatever you're doing is getting noticed by others. It can be summed up as a ‘fear of being judged’. It gives rise to our many and varied avoidance tactics, excuses and lies – when the truth is that we feel threatened or intimidated by someone or some situation and simply don’t want to feel the fear of not being accepted by others (or more importantly we feel unaccepted by ourselves). Conversely social phobia is often times what’s behind a person’s grandiose social mask, or what can appear like someone is ‘full of it’. It is a counter-phobic tactic – those who ‘feel the fear’ and do it anyway. It is a false self – not genuine confidence – and comes from an act of ‘I don’t care what people think of me’, when really they are terrified of judgment. If you suffer from social phobia / social anxiety, this fear becomes your own worst enemy. Indeed, you may arrange your whole life to avoid situations where social interactions may occur. The symptoms of social phobia (social anxiety). The symptoms produced by this condition commonly include ...
Ultimately, it can cause a full-blown anxiety attack or panic attack. Social anxiety also shares many similar symptoms with general anxiety. Often, when a person has social anxiety, their self esteem is low, they are lacking in confidence, they are sometimes not even able to hold eye contact. There is usually an intense dislike of being introduced to people, often anxiety over eating / drinking in public. Often relationships suffer because one partner has social phobia and a lot of rows can result. Social situations The fear of social phobia is based around social / public situations, and these can range from anything such as going to the pub, to going for a meal in public, dating, going to work, family events, entertainment situations, or even a complete inability to use public toilets (shy bladder), as well as many other situations where people come into some kind of contact with others. A particular type of social phobia is a dreaded fear of public speaking. A person may function wonderfully well in normal social situations and can be quite sociable, but give them a platform, a mic and an audience and an uncontrollable fear can take hold. It again boils down to an internal fear of being judged or not accepted / liked by others. Those with Social phobia hate confrontation and often times will let difficult or improper behaviour continue rather that speak up. There is often a general fear of authority and a person can act quite out of character around bosses, managers and those they perceive to be powerful. Usually a person with social phobia will manage it by avoiding social situations. However, when that is unachievable many will resort to excessive drinking or drugs just so they can relax and ‘get through it’. This obviously can lead to other problems. All in all it is a very demoralising and debilitating phobia and causes all sorts of suffering. Social Phobia CAN Be Helped! Why Hypnoanalysis is so successful at treating social phobia The fear of being judged is generally created in a person’s mind in childhood (though the symptoms may not appear for many years). The difficulty is caused by the sufferer bottling up some strong emotions. The only way to resolve the problem - 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 anxiety and social phobia 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
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