Anxiety

Anxiety leads to excessive worry which in turn leads to depression - Anxiety is triggered by stress.

The thing with depression is that it can trap you in a downward spiral of despair. All your actions just reinforce the depression. The isolation you find yourself in as you cut yourself off from friends & family only serves to fuel it as you brood and ruminate over negative feelings & emotions.

Anxiety is that feeling of unease, apprehension or worry. It may be associated with physical symptoms such as rapid heart beat, feeling faint and trembling. It can be a normal reaction to stress or worry or it can sometimes be part of a bigger problem.

Stress can be created by any sort of loss, from bereavement, divorce and separation to a child leaving home, or feelings of guilt can causes stress, as do long-term illness and disability. But things such as marriage, moving house, a new job and holidays have quite high stress ratings too. In work, worrying about deadlines or about not being up to the challenges of a particular task can cause stress too.

General Anxiety Disorder is an excessive and persistant feeling of unease and worry. This worry can be directed at many different things. Anxiety is triggered by stress

Persistent (chronic) stress that is not resolved, will eventually lead to a persons ability to cope - to break down; triggering the anxiety; leading to the onset of either physical or psychological problems or even both.

The anxiety can create IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS & or BEHAVIOURs and or FEARS (phobias) and physical symptoms. (see list of symptoms).

Then you find yourself caught in the vicious cycle. Eventually just thinking about it can bring on a panic attack

The anxiety is feeding off repressed memories - bottled up emotions - memories that where so upsetting to you as a child that your mind's defence mechanism repressed them; hid them away - bottling up the emotion attached to the memory.

The stress at work or home, or perhaps even a bereavement, job loss, separation; financial worries etc has triggered that bottled up emotion to react and to create the anxiety.

Anxiety creates --> physical symptoms (see list)--> Phobias--> Irrational behaviours & thoughts

Hypno analysis is one of the most effective therapies in the world for treating emotional and anxiety & stress related problems. It is a very natural process to discover the root cause of the problem rather than merely treating it or just trying to control the symptom. If you suffer with any of the symptoms listed, than hypno analysis is definitely therapy for you. Life need not be a struggle you do have a choice Loss of concentration.

Social anxiety, or social phobia as it is sometimes known, is the most common sort of phobia. Those suffering with social anxiety become very self conscious around other people and worry about being judged by friends, colleagues & strangers. The range of symptoms are extensive and can include the following:

What is the difference between a phobia and a fear?

The only difference between a phobia and a fear is the severity of the emotional reaction; a strong dislike of flying is a fear, whereas a pathological fear (an intense, uncontrollable, unendurable, physical fear) is considered to be a phobia.

A phobia is a symbolic representation of an internal anxiety which is projected onto an external object or situation. They are caused by experiences from our early years which were too shocking & upsetting for our immature minds to cope. As a result our sub-conscious mind conceals the memory of the event and the emotion generated by the event from our conscious mind. To an adult these events may appear to be comparatively trivial as an adult we have much more life experiences to compare it to.