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Hypnosis to Reduce Fears


The following is for our clients information:

We are using "terms" that have become common in the every day language. The information should not be construed that we treat medical or psychological problems

Hypnosis is the use of trance and suggestion to adjust habits of thought, feeling, and behavior. Hypnosis for medical or psychological problems requires a referral from a licensed practitioner of those healing arts. We are using "terms" that have become common in the every day language. The information should not be construed that we treat medical or psychological problems.

Information About Anxiety

Nearly 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:
  • generalized anxiety disorder
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • post-traumatic stress disorder
  • panic disorder, and
  • phobias

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.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Approximately 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.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD 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.

Phobias
The 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.

Panic Disorder
According 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.

Origins of Fear
One 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.

Common Fears
Flying, 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.

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.

Fear of the Fear
Phobia 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:
  • Unrealistic self-statements create a state of alarm
  • Fear of the fear itself develops
  • Personal feelings and reason are rejected as the fear escalates
  • Avoidance begins of any person, place, thing or situation which generates feelings of arousal or anxiety.

The Advantages of Hypnosis
Hypnosis can facilitate:
  • the replacement of catastrophic thoughts with truthful statements.
  • the realization that the physical sensations can cause no harm.
  • the slowing down of a rapid heartbeat
  • the achievement of a sense of balance
  • the generation of deep relaxation
  • freeing the throat to swallow
  • overcoming intense sensations of heat and cold
  • the promotion of clear-headedness.
  • restorative diaphragmatic breathing

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.

Confronting Your Fears in Hypnosis
Once 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.
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