Panic Attack Treatment and Anxiety Treatment in Northern Ireland

Stephen Chan hypnotherapist can help you using hypnosis and hypnotherapy in Portadown and Newry, also within easy reach of Belfast, Lisburn, Antrim, Lurgan, Armagh and Dundalk.

What are panic attacks and anxiety attacks?

A panic attack is an intense feeling of fear, a feeling of impending doom. Sufferers may feel that they are going crazy or that they are on the verge of a heart attack.

Although panic attacks can feel terrifying at the time, and you may feel as if you are going to die, they are not dangerous. In fact it is just an increased flow of adrenalin surging through your body.

A high level of adrenalin is not in itself a bad thing, because it can give you the extra energy needed to deal with difficult demands and challenges, as in the "flight or fight" response. The damage, however, is done when the levels of adrenalin don't fall naturally after the stressful event is over, and then the stress and tension can become prolonged.

Adrenalin has the following effects upon your body:

Your muscles tense up.
Your breathing becomes faster to take in more oxygen; muscles need oxygen to help them transform sugar into energy.
Your heart pumps harder to get blood to where it's needed.
Blood is diverted to the muscles, away from areas that don't need it, so you become pale.
Your digestion slows down and salivary glands dry up, causing a dry mouth.
Your senses become more alert; the slightest sound or touch provokes a reaction.
You have increased sweating.

Adrenalin causes these physical and emotional sensations:

Your breathing becomes very rapid, or you feel unable to breathe.
Your heartbeat becomes very rapid.
You feel chest pains.
You feel faint or dizzy.
You hear a ringing in your ears.
You feel a tingling or numbness in your hands and feet.
You feel hot or cold flushes.
You feel nauseous.
You want to go to the toilet.
You feel absolutely terrified.
You feel a sense of unreality, known as de-personalisation and de-realisation.
(During de-personalisation, people feel detached from their body and surroundings, strange and unreal. During de-realisation, they feel grounded in themselves, but the world seems distant or strange, and they may feel unsteady on their feet.)

Now, because you can't see a reason or cause for these feelings, you automatically presume something terrible will happen if you don't make a quick exit from the situation or location that you are in. This is precisely why panic attacks can be so terrifying, because you have no idea why you feel this way. This, in turn, means you can easily end up pointing the finger of blame at that particular situation or location: a restaurant, church, or perhaps the cinema (claustrophobia).

Here, however, is the really scary part - because these feelings of panic don't just confine themselves to seemingly dangerous situations - they can come at any time of the day, right out of the blue, and for no apparent reason. This means the fear of another attack will keep the sufferer in a cycle of panic.

If a panic attack occurs whilst driving, then driving can become associated with the panic. The person affected then avoids getting back behind the wheel. In some cases, people may retreat indoors (agoraphobia) because they believe that, by doing this, they can avoid all potential situations which may bring on an attack of panic.

Just to reiterate, one of the most distressing aspects of suffering from panic attacks is that they can seem completely unpredictable, and therefore uncontrollable.

There have been many studies carried out into the cause of panic disorders and, although the results are still inconclusive, one thing is definite - that is that they are directly linked to prolonged feelings of worry and stress. The 'worry cup' fills up over time, you 'bottle it' all up until it overflows, and then of course it erupts into a full blown panic attack.

You have to understand that these feelings of anxiety are already within you. The panic attack is only the latest way in which these feelings are being expressed.

Unlike other therapies and treatments which try to help you to cope, or learn to live with your symptoms, Pure Hypnoanalysis gets rid of the symptoms completely.

'Pure Hypnoanalysis' is unlike any other hypnotherapy and I can help you to empty that 'worry cup,' which is cause of your panic, once and for all.

Please contact me at Ulster Hypnotherapy
to arrange a free consultation
Free phone 0800 970 1189.

I offer a free confidential consultation at my Portadown, Newry and Belfast Hypnotherapy clinics, which are within easy reach of Lisburn, Armagh, Antrim, Lurgan and Dundalk.

There will be no need to speak to anyone other than myself, and I promise that your problems will be discussed with the greatest of sensitivity and strictest confidence. Please note that because of the volume of clientele there is a strong possibility you will be connected to my personal answer phone. If this is the case, just leave your name and number, and when I return the call I will not give my name, and will ask for, and talk only to you.

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