Panic Attacks, anxiety, Stress

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Elaine
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Date Feb 03rd, 2012 09:51 Panic Attacks, anxiety, Stress

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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Richard Scott
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Date Feb 05th, 2012 08:03 Re: Panic Attacks, anxiety, Stress

Perhaps while your client is calm and deeply relaxed you could run through a visualisation of her remaining calm and relaxed when in the presence of her brother (much like youre doing for the exams). It may, at least, help her to chill out a little more while in his company. I had one client of mine travel on a journey into their own subconscious mind to unlock a door which would allow thoughts, memories and secrets to begin to surface in a calm and controlled way. In fact I think the script is available from this website. It allowed some of the root causes of problems to be safely released from behind this previously locked door, thus allowing the reactions to those root causes to be desensitised. Rather than having the client face their demons outright. Maybe this would work - worth a try - it definitely worked for my client. Richard

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Dave Newman
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Date Feb 21st, 2012 05:42 Re: Panic Attacks, anxiety, Stress

Elaine, Why not offer to regress her back to some happy memory first. Let her pick, 1st birthday, first steps, special holiday or whatever and ask her subconscious to allow her to have conscious awareness of it.

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Susan
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Date Mar 01st, 2012 05:37 Re: Panic Attacks, anxiety, Stress

I wonder if you tried some counselling with this client, to get her to accept her brother and his issues. To see the problem from his point of view, and to build up some resilience as in life is not always as we would like it. Perhaps hypno for self acceptance and also acceptance of others, parts therapy to find out what the part of her that will not accept him wants? get her to imagaine releasing the emotion and then filling its place with new behaviour/thoughts. Time line regression could be helpful as it is a gentle way, and she can just see what she wants to see but again maybe work with releasing any negative emotions around the times - just in general not looking for a major incident. Use lots of positive strokes with this client to build her esteem and trust in you, ask her how would she like things to be even though her brother is still living at home, how can she make life better? Do any of her friends have a brother or sister they argue with?

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Elaine
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Date Mar 02nd, 2012 11:07 Re: Panic Attacks, anxiety, Stress

Thank you so much for all your great ideas and suggestions.

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