Can anyone recommend treatments for anxiety? Hypnotherapy?

[SMH13]

Hello

I am currently off the anti depressants after 4 months - apart from help me sleep they made the anxiety worse!

I was a happy person until the end of February 2009!


I am having CBT that is good, but feel that something deeper could be the problem. I lost my parents when I was young, have no siblings and wonder if something like this could be the cause all of a sudden.

Wondered about counselling or hypnotherapy, CBT seems very text book, changing thinking but not about me personally.

Has anyone got any suggestions or exeperience?

Many Thanks

[pinktwink]

best to go back to your gp and discuss with him. The thing about anxiety is people worry overly about situations rather than learn to enjoy the present. Have you tried yoga/meditation? What about joining some local cluns/groups to improve your confidence.

You need to give yourself permission to get on with your life in the present and not focus on the past.

Counselling may help learn anxiety mannagement techniques and yes CBT would be good. It will be tough though. The thing about counselling is its success lies in a persons willingness to accept the help , take risks and try out new ways of dealing with situations.
Good luck

[ACtheTROLL]

Hypnotherapy isn't going to help

and I can't see that your anxiety is likely to be caused directly by those particular experiences - more likely to what happened as a consequence.

the thing is - you can get addicted to therapy - It's great isn't it - for whatever time you are the centre of attention.

cbt as you say is less intimate but it's still it's very personal.

It's normal that as you find your way round the "system" you'll see "faults" and alternatives

there are many approaches ...
but cbt is about learning to cope . not healing - just coping with the effects of whatever hits you

The psychriatrist "breakthrough" is very different
If you've been assessed and cbt is thought to be in your best interests ... give it some time ...

stopping smoking takes 3 days to break the addiction, 3 weeks to break the habit.

but people still fancy a fag after a meal or with a drink - sometimes for the rest of their lives - the cbt here, wanting but not needing takes longer.... but gives you the ability to control the situation

[SMH13]

Thanks for the information - very helpful

[annie911]

hi i have terrible anxiety. im currently on lustral. not on it long enough to give my honest opinion on it . have tried others too .i find the best defence against it is knowledge. read ev thing you can find on it, i,e case studies too. alot of us have similar symptoms and similar triggers. its just a feeling but its hard to get that into your head when your in the middle of an episode. good luck with it.



































































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