Panic Attacks and Anxiety disorder

[poohbearsmommy]

I have had Post Traumatic for many years and over that time it has devoloped into an anxiety disorder. I started having panic attacks when I was 18 and now 8 years later I am living in a sort of hell. I tried Zoloft years ago but it made me feel dead inside. I really want to get on with my life. I don't drive on the freeway, fly and I avoid a lot of social situations. I have been diagnosed with anxiety disorder and the Dr. is trying to shove Paxil on me and I really don't want it. I have heard from friends that the treatment is worse then the illness. I desparately want to drive on the freeway by myself again, my goal is to drive my boy to the Zoo, I have never done that. I have heard that Hypnosis is wonderful and it can really get me back to being normal again.

[Don]

Get a referral from your doctor to see a hypnotherapist. See one who is experienced and certified. Ask if he or she has experience in this area.

[Jack]

Hello,

I second what Don has said. With all my anxiety and panic attack clients I recommend that they download a wonderful (and free!) ebook from www.alphadynamics.com (http://www.alphadynamics.com). It is about stress, but will help you to understand where your panic attacks are coming from. Knowledge is power with both anxiety and panic attacks.

Finally, I want to tell you that there is light at the end of the tunnel. My own resolution rate with anxiety is around 70% and other specialist practitioners claim over 80%.

Jack

[poohbearsmommy]

Thank you so much. I found one on my own that I am very comfortable with. I sat and talked with her and I felt like I had known her for years. I went through my first sesson today. She just took me to a child hood memory, it was one of the most amazing things I have ever expierenced. I saw things more clearly then I ever had before. I was very tired afterward, is that normal??

Sara

[poohbearsmommy]

Thanks I am reading it right now. According to my Hypnotherapist she said I did very well. It wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it would be more like the freeky freeky stuff you see on TV. It was so very strange and normal at the same time, I don't know how to explain it. Is it normal for your clients to feel so tired and wired afterward. Well a part of that probably had to do with the fact that I hadn't eaten all day and I left her office at 3:00pm. I get so busy I forget to eat. I was so tired though. I took a 30-45min nap, which I rarely ever do.

Sara

[skip]

A lot of how you feel after a hypnosis session can depend on the suggestions your hypnotist gave you, at or near, the end of the session.

I also would consider your blood sugar level since you said you hadnt eaten.

BUT you must also remember that while you might have been 'just sitting there', you WERE working very hard. And while it was easy to work that hard because you simply didnt notice how hard you were working, it doesnt negate that 'mentally' you may have run a marathon.

So if you feel tired after a session feel free to take a nap. Sometimes this is suggested, so you can continue to process what has occurred during the sessions.

I generally give suggestions for work to continue that night, as they sleep and dream. I get a 'force multiplier' on my work, and my clients love the vivid dreams.

skip

[poohbearsmommy]

Thanks so much. I was more tired then I had ever felt. I am gonna make it a point to make sure I am not hungry next time. I'm glad this is very normal.


Sara

[JenniferB]

Skip - what is a "force multiplier"?

[skip]

A 'force multiplier' is anything that you can do to increase the effect without expending any more energy, time, effort yourself.

For example spending time getting other people interested in a charity project so that they put time and effort into it, instead of you doing it all yourself, represents a force multiplier. You personally spend the same time, and effort, but the results are much greater. Did that last night. One night of each Christmas season, my friends and I 'take over the town' for a local charity, and collect money at every one of their locations for them. Then we have a Christmas party. One person could have decided to donate their time, but instead, came up with the idea of 'taking over the town'. So they spent their time and effort, selling the idea and arranging the party, and everyone else stood outside store fronts and collected money.


I generally will ask the unconscious to go into the past and take every context that had here to fore presented the problem, and to add the new learnings and understandings we got today to it, and then let them 'grow up' with those new understandings, so that their base for behavior is shifted, because they "actually" 'grew up' with different understandings than they came in with today, AND for them to project out into the future all the times when the same situations will come up, and to visualize them using this new behavior, so that the situation comes to a successful resolution for them, and to see themselves modifying the new behavior as necessary to effect the desired outcome as the situation demands. That effectively changes their personal history, with relationship to the problem, and future paces the new behavior, building in flexability so they can respond to variations in reality and still be satisfied with the results.

Now you could ask them to do this and signal you when they are done, and go off and come back in a couple of weeks in time for the signal. :)

OR you can remind them that you can dream a lifetime in just a moment or two, and tonight while they sleep and dream is the best time for them to carry out this assignment, so they can not only do it thoroughly as they enjoy it fully, but that they can wake up .... yadda yadda yadda ...

The point is that I extend the hypnotic session so that the time consuming stuff gets done after they leave, and I can use my time with them packing more good stuff in that they need me to be there for.

skip

[TaffyE]

Nice one Skip

[Charlie]

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I recently dug up this old thread whilst searching for something else.

But isn't Skip's last posting re 'Force Multiplier' quite fascinating?

It kind of reminds me of something that I've sort of 'accidentally' ( i.e. consciously unplanned ) been doing recently with self-hypnosis.

I find I've been using the words "Amplify" and "Intensify" quite a lot, recently, in terms of requesting my unconscious to take any suggestion given in the trance state to amplify and intensify those suggestions so that they become much more powerful. I've subsequently been finding that the words "Amplify" and "Intensify" have then become powerful anchors for whatever the post-hypnotic behaviour is, i.e. whilst doing the post-hypnotic behaviour I just have to say the words "Amplify" and "Intensify" in my mind, in a hypnotic tonality, and the behaviour become even more 'inevitable', so to speak.

All good things.

:)

Charlie.

[Terry (existing)]

Actually, those who are new to our art, should be printing and collecting these golden apples for later study. Skips multiplier is also done by our teaching clients self hypnosis, which is why we so often tell questioners to see a local practitioner to find how to do it for themselves instead of trying from a book. They get a start on working at a problem, and learn at the same time for very little cost, if they value their own time as much as we value ours.....Speaking of value, if a consultation costs you $250.00 for an hour of your time, you have just proved to yourself that you value your time at that rate, so tell me, how long will it take, and what cost, to learn from a book, and likely learn poorly...

[Charlie]

if a consultation costs you $250.00 for an hour of your time, you have just proved to yourself that you value your time at that rate, so tell me, how long will it take, and what cost, to learn from a book, and likely learn poorly...

Who are you asking?

Or is it a rhetorical question?

Do you like to ask rhetorical questions?

Have you ever asked yourself a rhetorical question, and gone into a trance?

Is this a rhetorical question?

:p

[Don]

while I'm not Terry, I would say it's not a rhetorical question at all. Rather, it's asking two questions:

How much do you value your health and well-being, and how much do you value your time?

Do you think you're worth $250 to be happy and well? If not, you're saying that you're not worth that amount of money. If so, you have even more issues you shold consider working on.

Secondly, let's assume that you buy a book for $20. You spend five hours reading it and perhaps another 20 hours practicing from it only getting partial success because you are not previously an expert in these techniques and may have only learned them poorly. In other words, what is your time worth to you?

Or put another way, you can spend $250 (or whatever) and get things resolved in an hour or two, or you can spend $20 and 20 hours and have a questionable amount of success.

The choice, of course, is yours.

[Charlie]

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I still don't know who Terry is asking.

The OP has seen a hypnotherapist, according to their earlier post.

My own posting was mere commentary / personal experience, in which I don't think I mentioned anything about books.

I'm confused.

What am I not noticing???

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[Terry (existing)]

Charlie, sometimes a post is not just a reply to a previous one, but a commentary in support of something said, as is so in this case. Far too often we get posts suggesting someone has read and practised, and not succeeded and they want to know WHY. I offered such a comment, and did so without anyone in mind. If for some reason I hit a nerve, it was by accident this time. Actually, after re reading my post, I think it one of my better and more complimentary ones....

[Charlie]

......I offered such a comment, and did so without anyone in mind........

Fair enough, Terry.

:)