Anxiety disorders involve excessive fear and anxiety and can come...
Read MoreAnxiety and how hypnotherapy can help
Anxiety is primarily about fear of undesirable happenings in the future. It’s a sort of excessive worry mentality, and persistent (ie chronic) anxiety is surprisingly common. Of course, you may also experience occasional high or acute anxiety.
Persistent anxiety can drain you, both mentally and physically. However, help is at hand. You can overcome it with the right approach and hypnotherapy has a long history in helping with anxiety.
Have I got anxiety?
Anxiety comes with muscle tension and mental vigilance, always ready for future danger, and tends to feed over-cautiousness or even to avoiding things.
You might experience trembling, chills or hot flashes, dizziness, dry mouth, nausea, heart palpitations, profuse sweating, restlessness, tense muscles, or some other symptom. In acute cases, symptoms can seem so unexpected or inexplicable that they can be rather frightening.
Sometimes people develop coping methods that help bring down their anxiousness. Richard recalls one client who used to cling to a bottle of iced water, for example. These coping behaviours can escalate as they lose their effectiveness.