There are a few occasions in our lives that bring about some mild doses of anxiety along with them. Weddings, examination, public facing are some of the best examples to support this statement. These mild doses of anxiousness are not that bothersome and goes away quickly. However, if these tend to increase and start to interfere in the everyday life, then there is something wrong.
Women are more prone to these anxiety disorders than males. A majority of the anxiety attacks interfere with your day-to-day life making you to alter your daily routine. People tend to confuse fear with anxiety. However, there is a great difference between the two. If not immediately checked, they can do a great harm and might make you feel embarrass in certain situations.
When a person realizes that something is wrong with him or her, they rush to the doctor. However, when it comes to anxiety attacks, some of the doctors find it very difficult to tell you what is wrong with you. They may conduct several tests and still they may not come to any conclusion. They may also say that you are perfectly normal, but you know it from within that you are not normal. There are times that the patients may go crazy if they do not get the proper treatment.
Going to a regular family physician may not be a very good idea in situations where you get frequent bouts of anxiety attacks. Most often you may need to visit a psychiatrist or any other medical professional who deals with mental disorders. This is an area of specialization and there are very few good people doing a great job. If you want any sort of help for anxiety, visit the psychiatrist first. However, just visiting the psychiatrist or medical professional is not sufficient. You need to be patient with the doctor and the treatment.
Although, most of the medications that are prescribed are good and effective, however, some of them have side affects too. If you want to avoid the side affects and look forward for something drug-free, then you can go for hypnosis therapy. This therapy, is generally, combined with other therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy. The medical specialist who conducts this therapy is called as a hypnotherapist.
You would need to tell the medical history and your health status to the hypnotherapist when you visit them for the first time. Then he would let you know as to what all are the advantages and drawbacks of hypnosis. After this, he would tell you the exact way the process works. The treatment starts with a series of relaxation exercises. Each session would be of approximately for 30 minutes and would make you feel better once taken three to four times.
After each session, the hypnotherapist makes certain observations and records the progress using special techniques. The results will be shared with you and you will know how much progress you have made toward normalcy. Mostly, children in the age group of nine to twelve are easily hypnotized and most of them get great relief in two to three sessions. Another aspect of the hypnosis therapy is the self-hypnosis treatment. This treatment is done on your own and you may need just few audio tapes and special instructions. The self-hypnosis is often done in tandem with the hypnotherapy.
Alternatively, you can opt for Linden method. It was devised by Charles Linden. This is considered to be quite effective and has helped quite a lot of people. The last two methods are drug-free and do not have any side effect. The cost of hypnotherapy may vary from one hypnotherapist to another. So, don’t think yourself to be helpless while you are into panic disorders. Fight it instead. All you need is right guidance with right treatment.
Beth Kaminski is a leading expert in how to end panic attacks and has been publishing lots of information on the medications for panic disorder for years now.