Panic Attack Symptoms

Recognizing panic attack symptoms is key to treating this disorder. They can come seemingly out of nowhere and for no apparent reason. You can find lists of symptoms all over the Internet but here are a few of the most common ones-

• Shaking/Trembling

• Upset Stomach

• Breathing Difficulty - (Feel Smothered)

• Nausea, Dizziness, Feeling Lightheaded

• Chills/Hot Flashes

• Chest Pains

• Heart Palpitations

• Numbness or Tingling in Hands

• Dream-like Sensations

• Distortions of Perception

• Overwhelming Fear or Terror

• Feeling of Powerlessness

• Fear of Dying

There are a lot more than just these. However this gives you some idea of the power of these attacks and the many faces they can wear.

Facts About Panic Attack Symptoms

One fact is that knowing how long these attacks will last in hard to predict. They can last a short time or seem like an eternity. A typical attack goes for about ten minutes. During this time sufferers experience intense distress and many times believe they are having a heart attack.

If panic attacks happen to you often then it is said you have a 'panic disorder'. Anxiety about issues in your life suggests strong emotions in those specific areas.

Health Condition Contributors

You can also have a health condition that brings on your attacks. Anemia, certain medications, and thyroid disorders can bring on very intense anxiety.

People who take Ritalin, insulin, quinine, or go through corticosteroid withdrawals may also experience similar symptoms. If this describes you then medical treatment should be sought out immediately.

More researchers are looking into diet as a possible connection to panic attacks. They believe that many food additives such as 'aspartame' or food dyes may contribute to bringing on these horrifying attacks. They believe that removing these from your diet might help to stop panic attacks.

Treating This Type of Disorder

Refraining from alcohol or caffeine is recommended when trying to treat your panic attacks. Regular exercise is another way to help prevent or at least manage your attacks better. Some doctors recommend yoga, deep breathing, walking, massage therapy, aerobics, and doing them daily to combat this disorder.

Another popular and natural form of treatment is to use a hypnosis MP3 download. Each hypnosis track is specifically designed to combat a particular issue with panic attacks being one of the most commons things that people want to overcome. The ability to program the mind has proved to be a true help in many various aspects of life.

By Claire J Perry

Top 5 Uses for Hypnotherapy

1. Stopping Smoking. If the main reason people keep smoking is because they are addicted to nicotine, the nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) would be really effective. It isn't. In fact NRT such as patches or gums is only 7% more effective than a placebo. Hypnotherapy addresses the unconscious desire to smoke and the habit, with a much higher success rate of over 60%.

2. Weight Loss. If you can stick to a diet, chances are you will lose weight. The only problem is that you have to be able to stick to it long term to lose a meaningful amount of weight, and possible indefinitely to maintain the weight loss. We as human beings have shown ourselves to be spectacularly bad a sticking to diets. Issues of deprivation, motivation, willpower, stress and emotion all come into play to sabotage our latest diet. The answer is to use hypnotherapy to work on these issues at a deep level, helping us to reduce stress, change unconscious habits, see food, and ourselves differently and make lasting changes that we can stick to.

3. Stress. Stress occurs when we negatively react to the environment around us. We can't always change the things that happen in our lives, but we do have the power to change our responses. Hypnosis allows you to tap into inner resources to manage stress more effectively, to cope better in any situation and remain calm and relaxed no matter what life throws at you.

4. Confidence. Using hypnosis is the quickest and easiest way of feeling more confident and better about yourself. Whether you've always had low confidence or whether a life experience damaged your self confidence, hypnotherapy can help you to move forward, feel good about yourself and give you the confidence to do all the things you'd really like to do.

5. Fear or phobias. Get control over your mind and your life by conquering your fears with hypnotherapy. During the relaxed state of hypnosis, you can explore reasons for your fear, move past them and replace feelings of fear with those of controlled calmness.

It is a pleasant, relaxing and enjoyable experience. Some clients describe it as being like an enjoyable daydream, and some enjoy it so much that they want to stay for longer in that relaxed state. You remain aware and in control at all times.

Stage hypnotists thoroughly vet their participants before hand - they choose extroverts who want to perform on the stage and who would not embarrass themselves or the hypnotist by not playing along. Since hypnosis cannot make someone do something they do not want to do, the participant subconsciously wants to do as the hypnotist asks and play along. Although this can demonstrate the power of hypnosis, it differs from hypnotherapy in a number of ways. Hypnotherapy aims to get to the root cause of your issue or problem, and the therapist works with you to empower and help you to make these changes. Your best interests are always at heart, and your integrity is of the utmost importance.

By Chloe Brotheridge

Benefits of Hypnotherapy

The purpose of most hypnotherapy is to alter some undesirable aspect of behavior. The aspect of behavior to be modified can be something like overeating, stopping smoking, anxiety or it can range to more serious personality disorders like psychosis. The therapist, in hypnotherapy, puts the subject into a trance like state in which the therapist can deliver suggestion or talk with the subject's subconscious mind directly. Basically, the trance allows the therapist to bypass the subject's conscious.

Inducing a trance is a relatively easy process. There are various techniques like having the subject stare at and concentrate on a spot on the wall or waving a stopwatch or pendulum back-and-forth in front of his face as he follows it with his eyes. The therapist, speaking in a monotone, says things like "you are becoming more and more relaxed", "you can feel the tension draining from your body", etc. When the subject is in the trance the therapist then gives the suggestions in the same monotonic voice. The suggestions have to be carefully worded to bring about the desired effect. When the therapy session is over, the therapist brings the subject out of the trance by saying something like "you are become more aware of you surroundings" and "open your eyes when you are ready to". The subject will then "wake up". Hypnotherapy directed by a therapist is referred to hetero-suggestion.

If the intention of the hypnotherapy is to modify behavior like overeating or stopping smoking, usually more than one session is required. The effects are not immediate but the behavior should begin to change gradually in days or weeks. Hypnotherapy can make it easier for the subject to lose weight or to quit smoking. Also, hypnotherapy can be beneficial in the treatment of some psychoses. In the trance like state the therapist can talk with the subject and bring up repressed events that are causing problems in the subject's life. Some things too painful to say in a conscious state may be able to be revealed in hypnotic state. These painful past events may be causing symptoms like dreams or nightmares, phobias, etc. A psychotherapist, having knowledge of these events, is in a better position to help the subject recover.

There are many benefits of hypnotherapy for people who want to modify behavior. It is easy and relatively inexpensive form of therapy, even though it may require several session.

By Joseph Hanoa