Relieving Panic Attack With Hypnotherapy And NLP

A panic attack is a sudden and intense feeling of terror, fear, or apprehension, without the presence of actual danger. The symptoms of a panic attack usually happen suddenly, peak within 10 minutes, and then subside. However, some attacks may last longer or may occur in succession, making it difficult to determine when one attack ends and another begins.

Anyone can experience a panic attack. An attack can sometimes be triggered by a specific event, but these attacks can also be a symptom of anxiety disorders like panic disorder or agoraphobia.

Panic Attack Symptoms

Panic attacks usually appear suddenly and lead to intense feelings of fear. They tend to last around 10 to 20 minutes but can last longer in some instances. The experience can vary from one person to the next, but some of the most common symptoms include:

• Chest pain or discomfort

• Chills or hot sensations

• Feeling of choking

• Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint

• Fear of dying

• Fear of losing control or going crazy

• Feelings of unreality (derealization) or being detached from oneself (depersonalization)

• Nausea or abdominal distress

• Numbness or tingling sensations (paresthesias)

• Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate

• Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering

• Sweating

• Trembling or shaking

Anxiety disorders can be debilitating. Panic is, in many cases, part and parcel of the anxious condition. Social fears are also very common and burden the lives of many - it is one of the most widespread anxiety conditions. For many other people, anxiety is not that specific. Through a habit of suppressing anxious feelings and thoughts, as well as avoiding situations that cause fear, these people have unwittingly broken the link between the feeling and its original cause; thereby the anxiety has become 'generalised'. This means anxiety is now pervasive and has become tightly interwoven with everyday life. Anxious thinking, emotional and physical tension, as well as feelings of dread and apprehension, have become interlocked with daily activities, preventing proper functioning and disrupting sleep.

Types of Panic Attacks

One way that panic attacks have been characterized into different types is as follows:

Spontaneous or uncued panic attacks occur without warning or “out of the blue.” No situational or environmental triggers are associated with the attack. These types of panic attacks may even occur during sleep.

Situationally bound or cued panic attacks occur upon actual or anticipated exposure to certain situations. These situations become cues or triggers for a panic episode. For example, a person who fears enclosed spaces may experience a panic attack when entering or thinking about entering an elevator.

Situationally predisposed panic attacks don’t always occur immediately upon exposure to a feared situation or cue, but the person is more likely to experience an attack in such situations. For example, a person who has a fear of social situations but who does not experience a panic episode in every social situation, or who experiences a delayed attack after being in a social environment for an extended period of time.

 Hypnotherapy and Panic Attack

Hypnosis integrated with psychotherapy can help effectively with various anxiety disorders, as well as panic attacks. In therapy, we look at the underlying unhelpful thinking patterns as well as the triggers. ​

Hypnotherapy for panic attacks works effectively re-setting anxiety levels to ‘healthy’. It clears the negative and unhealthy belief systems that drive panic state and perception and instils calm and relaxation.

Using a variety of therapeutic techniques with the integration of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy renders it a successful way to identify and understand panic attack response patterns and behavioural traits that might be causing and maintaining the client's anxious thought process. Cognitive Hypnotherapy  identify negative thinking patterns and providing them with important management tools and skills. Through anxiety hypnotherapy, we can help clients manage unhelpful patterns and stressful situations more calmly. We work with an integrative approach to change automatic responses from panic triggers, to thinking, feeling and behaving differently so that you remain relaxed in situations that would typically trigger panic attacks.