Anxiety, stress, panic attacks

Feb 02nd, 2012 08:48 Anxiety, stress, panic attacks

I am currently seeing a 17 year old girl who initially came to me because she had panic attacks while in her exams and subsequently has to sit in a room on her own because she is too disruptive to other students. I have managed to sort out the panic attacks by visually taking her through the whole process while keeping her calm etc. She also has a myriad of issues, the second issue is her anger and stress at living with her younger brother (4 years younger) who has been a difficult child since birth (he is at a special school for dyslexia). She locks herself in her room to be away from him and her moods depend on his behaviour. She left my office nice and relaxed yesterday but saw her brother in the car and her whole mood immediately changed to anger and stress at just his presence. I have tried regression therapy on her to try and find out the source of this anxiety and panic attacks and so on... She does go nice and deep into hypnosis but the moment that she hears me trying to ask her to remember back, her conscious mind becomes alert and she cannot regress. I have tried telling her that Im not going to ask her to remember anything and Ive continued with deepening her trance and then delicately trying again but to no avail. Any ideas?

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