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Hypnosis and anxiety

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The anxiety and conditions related to anxiety are the most common psychological afflictions of men and appears as an accessory symptom to almost all psychopathological conditions.
Who can feel bad without feeling anxious about their malaise?

Moreover, it has been estimated that more than 5% of the population suffers from acute or chronic anxiety, and that the percentage sees women experience it in perceptual double compared to men (Cohen and White, 1950).

As a symptom, anxiety is the final common consequence of many conditions, physical and psychological. Like the syndromes, anxiety disorders are under intense study to define more precisely its etiology and clinical results. Hypnosis is the most used treatment in the management of anxiety and associated states, not only where anxiety prevails but because hypnosis has a powerful and clear role against the latter.
Assess the level of anxiety

The first task of a hypnotherapist is to evaluate the anxious condition. Within the initial anamnesis the therapist has to ask some questions.
Is anxiety organically determined? Is there a medical, psychological or somatic basis that its existence?

The list of medical conditions that may contain anxiety is long:

    Hypertension
    Cardiac arrhythmias
    anemia
    Hypoglycemia
    side effects from hypnotic sedatives (including alcohol)
    Abuse of psychostimulants (caffeine, cocaine or other)

Anxiety is sometimes confused with medical conditions, which when presented, share its appearance.

    Pathologies of conterar arteries
    musculoskeletal pain
    Respiratory fatigue
    Cardiac symptoms can camouflage anxiety states (such as hyperthyroidism, Meniere's disease,). the treatment obviously does not exclude psychotherapy or hypnotic intervention, which supports and improves the primary treatment of the medical aspect.

Is anxiety an aggravating component of a chronic medical syndrome?

Many of the psychosomatic conditions are intimately related to anxiety and stress. The burning of some peptic ulcers, ulcerative colitis or hypertension produces anxiety. Clearly the difficulties generated by these and the psychosocial adjustments exacerbate these conditions. Controlling anxious state is important for improving the iteration between psyche and soma.

Is anxiety part of another psychological pathology?

Anxiety occurs in most other psychopathological syndromes. A major depression is rarely lacking, the same applies to manias. Schizophrenia, especially in the phase of decompensation, as well as in the individual experiences of fragmentation of the I, can appear from fear. The treatment of anxiety in these conditions is central to correct the overall psychiatric syndrome.


When the medical conditions and the major psychiatric syndromes are eliminated and we are faced with the exclusively anxious symptomatology, we can easily identify the cause. It is possible, for a more useful therapeutic approach, to enclose the anxiety in 3 general categories:

     individual fluctuating feelings of constant fear (Generalized anxiety disorder)
    individual manifestations of episodes of panic, but that, among the attacks, there is a relatively libra-like condition (Panic attacks)
    mixed syndromes

There are also conditions that contain anxiety as a symptom and an essential part of experiential manifestation

Phobias are differentiated from the facts that define the context or the object of fear. Phobias are characterized by the presence of anxiety and a desire for avoidance. Just as agoraphobia manifests itself in conditions where the individual feels trapped and unable to return safely as common places that include elevators, subways, trains, airplanes, tunnels or bridges.

Social phobias appear in interpersonal situaions while there are simple phobias that are persistent irraizonal fears of a specific object or animals. Phobias can be seriously incapacitating and shared. There are people who end up imprisoning in their homes because they feel terror and anxiety where they can come into contact with the outside world.

Post-traumatic stress disorder, acute or chronic, contains generalized anxiety as the major component of the somatic constellation and psychological districts that follow an accident, a bereavement, or another disaster.

Obsessive compulsive disorder is characterized by tensions generated by emerging thoughts, desires or abilities that mobilize and force to generate some recursive actions, in an attempt to deny, ignore or cancel the anxiety generated. When the situation is serious, anxiety becomes generalized, chronic and leads to incapacity.

Adaptation disorders represent maladaptive responses to identify stressful psychological activators.

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