Stress, Anxiety & Panic Attacks

"It's two  o'clock  in the morning and you're lying in bed. You have something immensely important and challenging to do that next day - a critical meeting, a presentation, an exam. You have to get a decent night's rest, but you're still wide awake. You try different strategies for relaxing, but instead you keep thinking that unless you fall asleep in the next minute or two, your career is finished. Thus you lie there, more tense by the second."

Sound familiar?

There are two types of stress; eustress (positive stress) and distress (negative stress). Whilst the good stress can help us to 'rise to an occassion', can motivate and drive us, distress does the complete opposite. Every year in the UK, over 6 million working days are lost due to stress at an estimated cost of £5 billion to the employer. Each sufferer has (on average) 16 days off per year. It has been proved that high levels of stress over a sustained period can damage health. While symptoms in isolation may or may not show stress, where several occur it is likely that stress is having an effect. Note that as stress increases, your ability to recognise it will decrease.

Do any of these symptoms sound familiar? nail biting, increased smoking or drinking, less (or more) sleep than usual, less involvement in social activities, less attention to appearance, fast talking or long silences, working longer hours, compulsive behaviour, frequent absences from work, road rage, relying more on medication, being more accident prone. Then there's the emotional symptoms: anxiety, mood changes, overwhelmed by events, frustration, hostility, helplessness, irritability and impatients, anger, lethatgic, negativity, lack of concentration, forgetful.

Short Term Symptoms:-

Faster heart beat, increased sweating, cool skin, cold hands and feet,  nausia, butterflies, erratic breating, tense muscles resulting in back/shoulder ache, dry mouth, desire to urinate, diarrhoea, dizzy.

Long Term Symptoms:-

Change in appetite, frequent colds and illness due to weakened immune system, chronic back pain, digestive problems, IBS, headaches and migrane, skin problems, sexual problems, intense and long term tiredness, palpitations, heightened allergic responses, hyperventilation, high blood pressure, and auto immune diseases such as ME.

The good news is that all of these symptoms (long term, short term, physical and mental ones) can all be treated with Hypnotherapy, CBT (Cognative Behaviour Therapy) NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Permanent results can be seen in a relatively short space of time, and I will teach you how to empower yourself to overcome this.

I would be delighted to provide a half or one day Stress Management Course for your business or  for large groups. Please see the "Contact Me" page for further information.