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05/04/2023

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Hypnotherapist Antonios explains what IBS is and how hypnotherapy can help.

03/06/2022

A panic attack is a sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions when there is no real danger or apparent cause. Panic attacks can be very frightening. When panic attacks occur, you might think you're losing control, having a heart attack or even dying.
Although panic attacks themselves aren't life-threatening, they can be frightening and significantly affect your quality of life.

Panic attacks typically begin suddenly, without warning. They can strike at any time — when you're driving a car, out shopping , sound asleep or in the middle of a business meeting. You may have occasional panic attacks, or they may occur frequently.

Panic attacks have many variations, but symptoms usually peak within minutes. You may feel fatigued and worn out after a panic attack subsides.

Panic attacks typically include some of these signs or symptoms:

Sense of impending doom or danger
Fear of loss of control or death
Rapid, pounding heart rate
Sweating
Trembling or shaking
Shortness of breath or tightness in your throat
Chills
Hot flashes
Nausea
Abdominal cramping
Chest pain
Headache
Dizziness, lightheadedness or faintness
Numbness or tingling sensation
Feeling of unreality or detachment
One of the worst things about panic attacks is the intense fear that you'll have another one. You may fear having panic attacks so much that you avoid certain situations where they may occur.

Factors that may increase the risk of developing panic attacks or panic disorder include:

Family history of panic attacks or panic disorder
Major life stress, such as the death or serious illness of a loved one
A traumatic event, such as sexual assault or a serious accident
Major changes in your life, such as a divorce or the addition of a baby
Smoking or excessive caffeine intake
History of childhood physical or sexual abuse

Left untreated, panic attacks and panic disorder can affect almost every area of your life. You may be so afraid of having more panic attacks that you live in a constant state of fear, ruining your quality of life.

Complications that panic attacks may cause or be linked to include:

Development of specific phobias, such as fear of driving or leaving your home
Frequent medical care for health concerns and other medical conditions
Avoidance of social situations
Problems at work or school
Depression, anxiety disorders and other psychiatric disorders
Increased risk of su***de or suicidal thoughts
Alcohol or other substance misuse
Financial problems
For some people, panic disorder may include agoraphobia — avoiding places or situations that cause you anxiety because you fear being unable to escape or get help if you have a panic attack. Or you may become reliant on others to be with you in order to leave your home.

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30/01/2022

28/01/2022

Recent client review regarding successful eating disorder therapy .
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Stuart is a most caring, understanding therapist who has helped enormously. Through therapy I have come to understand the reasons for my issues and how to deal with them. Therapy has helped to manage emotions and worry, and how to make changes. Stuart's patient support have helped so much.E

15/10/2021

22/05/2021

Panic disorder
Those with a panic disorder diagnosis experience recurrent unexpected panic attacks and go on to experience at least one month of persistent worry about another panic attack or a significant change in your behaviour because of the attacks.
Panic attacks can arise suddenly, from a calm state or progress from an anxious state. A panic attack is an unanticipated surge of intense fear and can last from minutes to up to 45 minutes.
The DSM lists the symptoms of a panic attack as follows, for a formal diagnosis you must have experienced four of the feelings during your panic attack;
heart disturbances (palpitations, pounding or racing)
sweating
shaking
feeling short of breath or like you are suffocating
tightness in the throat so it feels like you are choking
chest pain
nausea or discomfort in the abdomen
dizziness (lightheaded/faint)
feeling a change in temperature, hot or cold
numbness or tingling sensations
dissociation from oneself or feeling detached from reality
fear of losing control or that you have gone mad
fear of dying
If you have recently encountered panic attacks , you are aware of just how scary and fearful the effects are
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09/05/2021

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I cannot recommend Stuart enough. Stuarts professionalism and understanding of such a wide variety of life issues that effect mental health, relationships and personal development allowed me to work a process of recovery from rock bottom. Stuart is not just a Hypnotherapist his talking therapy is al...

08/05/2021

Panic attacks - stress - health anxiety
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28/04/2021

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Stuart is a masterful practitioner within his field. I contacted his hypnotherapy practice full of scepticism after realising I needed to seek alternative avenues to those I’d already explored. Stuart listened to my problems and then gave me insight into the mental triggers and impulses that influ...

25/04/2021

Relationship with food - overeating , binge and comfort eating .
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Writer Jessica explores how to reframe the often complex relationship we have with food, and how hypnotherapy can help.

28/03/2021

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
IBS is a gastrointestinal problem which can physically cause nausea, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, bowel incontinence and bloating. In addition to these problems it can also affect people mentally in terms of anxiety regarding living with it and when it will strike and this can often subsequently affect their mood.
The exact cause of why Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) occurs has never been confirmed but it is thought to possibly be a cause of food passing through your gut too quickly, oversensitive nerves in your gut, stress and sometimes a family history of the problem.
The stomach is the most emotional part of your body and there is a connection between your brain and your gut and as you respond to difficult and adverse life experiences your gut responds accordingly. This is evidenced by the fact that there is more serotonin contained in your gut than in your brain.
The connection between your mind and your gut is a linked pathway whereby the sensations in your gut reach your brain through a network of nerves in your intestine, which is transferred through your spinal cord to your brain and the connection can work both ways. If the brain is affected the gut reacts and vice versa.
The mayo clinic in America reports that any person can experience stomach pain and bowel irregularities with stress and anxiety, but in IBS sufferers the stress related symptoms of diarrhoea and pain occur with far greater regularity. This affects their sense of well-being, activities in work and in family life. In America Irritable Bowel Syndrome accounts for the second leading cause of absenteeism from work.

This is why hypnotherapy is such a useful tool in combating Irritable Bowel Syndrome. In its purest form hypnotherapy will induce a state of deep relaxation in addition to ego strengthening and helpful suggestions of improvement to your less analytical subconscious mind whilst in trance.
The ego strengthening may involve encouraging you to build tolerance to the problem promoting your confidence and your resilience in controlling it, and normalising digestive function. It depends on how any one individual experiences IBS but different approaches may involve direct suggestion such as no more pain, no more discomfort and that you can control when you need to go to the toilet
In hypnotherapy I encourage you to pay less attention to your symptoms, and to ignore the uncomfortable sensations and to not be too fixated on them. This is because often, if people have lived with the problem for a long time, they can be hyper vigilant to it which only heightens their anxiety. we focus on calming the digestive tract which subsequently prevents heightened focus on pain and discomfort in the body.
Hypnotherapy in recent times is proving a popular alternative to conventional treatments and helps not just with the actual symptoms but also improve quality of life and there is substantial evidence in particular that it alleviates abdominal pain and bloating in particular. In Sweden hypnotherapy is the primary approach for dealing with IBS. In a more recent study in 2002 it was found that from 250 people surveyed those receiving hypnotherapy for IBS reported more than 50% reduction in severity of symptoms and improved quality of life. There was significant improvement in terms of managing abdominal pain, distension (bloating), bowel problems and also overall quality of life.
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26/03/2021

NEW... Client review .... Insomnia and anxiety - resolved rapidly with sleep therapy .
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Thankyou for your commitment towards my anxiety and insomnia problems, I feel so relieved to have found Stuart , he helped me to learn about how to reduce panic attacks aswell as self development in training myself to cope with anxiety around sleeping, before I met him I really was struggling to cop...

25/03/2021

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Writer Melanie explains the anchoring technique, how it’s used within hypnosis and how it can help us to overcome feelings of anxiety.

15/03/2021

PTSD, Trauma, Phobias & High Anxiety Conditions
When a person encounters an event or situation which they perceive to be dangerous or threatening, their brain instantly focuses on the source of the threat and their body goes into survival mode, often known as the Fight or Flight Response. The additional physical and emotional energy created is used up as the situation passes and their body returns to normal once again. The person’s brain then processes what has happened by separating their emotional response from their physical experience and storing these in different areas of the brain, enabling them to make rational sense of the event. However, sometimes this separation process does not occur and when this happens, it can lead to phobia or trauma.

During a traumatic event, a person’s emotional response may be so extreme that the entire memory of the event becomes locked in the emotional centres of the brain, ready to re-activate whenever they encounter a similar situation which resembles the original event. Instead of being processed by the Hippocampus (the area of the brain which gives an event context) and then being transferred to the Neocortex (the area of the brain where memories are stored), the event remains trapped in the Amygdala; the part of the brain responsible for the fight or flight response. Although the original event may have happened some time ago, it feels as though it is happening very much in the present and this is often true for people who may be experiencing phobias. fears and PTSD.
The Rewind Technique
Based on a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) technique from the 1970s called Visual-Kinaesthetic (VK) Dissociation or the Fast Phobia Cure, the Rewind Technique is a non-intrusive, safe and effective therapy designed to help people who are experiencing phobias, trauma or PTSD. The name comes from the way in which the person is asked to use their imagination to ‘rewind’ the memory of the traumatic events. Rewind Therapy works by allowing the person to reprocess the traumatic memory so that the emotional information is disconnected from the actual event, therefore enabling the person’s brain to re-code the information and release the anxiety. The memory is moved from the Amygdala to the Neocortex, allowing the memory to be transformed from traumatic, to ordinary and non-threatening.

Benefits of Rewind Therapy
One of the real benefits of Rewind Therapy is that a person does not need to reveal every detail of the traumatic event(s) in order for the therapist to work with them. This means that they do not have to re-experience the events that have caused the phobia or traumatic symptoms. In therapy we use the Rewind Technique in combination with hypnosis, as this allows a person to enter a deeply relaxed trance state where they can calmly reprocess memories and experiences.
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