Is health anxiety holding you captive?

Are you spending too much time on google?

People suffering from a severe form of health anxiety often have the sensation that they are being held hostage by their own bodies. You may be one of them, and for what you believe is necessary for your own survival, also have an uncontrollable urge to check every little ache and pain you have on google.

The googling of symptoms that you feel may be life-threatening can rapidly become addictive, and result in a strong urge to gather every bit of information you can, so that you do not get one or another dread disease. A problem arises when you find something in yourself which mirrors the google research of the symptoms, which can motivate you to visit the doctor for reassurance that it is not a lurking dread disease.

However, realistically speaking, you may realise deep down that nothing serious will happen to your health if you could only avoid being overwhelmed by negative and anxious thoughts

How to break free from captivity.

Circumstances and traumas you have faced in your life all play a part in how your brain functions. The experiences have helped to create your personality, as well as the memories which cause you to be anxious. Very often, the negative thoughts have been created by these experiences.

Health anxiety is now recognised as a type of anxiety disorder, as it is mainly triggered by thoughts in the mind. Anxiety takes many forms, and should be treated appropriately to the specific type of anxiety issue. 

Mental health experts agree that hypnotherapy is the key to successful treatment, as medications may sometimes help the symptoms, without dealing with the root cause. Hypnosis can access the subconscious mind and help to identify the traumas and harmful thoughts which may be lurking there. Many folk are ashamed of a serious health anxiety issue and often just suffer in silence, but you will learn that there is no good reason to suffer when you can be helped to successfully ditch the health anxiety.

How hypnotherapy works.

Adelaide Hypnosis is not someone jumping up and down on a stage, putting people into a trance! During a hypnotherapy session, you undergo a process that helps you to fully relax and focus your mind, so that you are more able to respond to suggestions by the therapist. In this way you are willing to focus on your subconscious mind and allow the therapist to investigate some of the issues that are holding you in bondage to health anxiety. Here are some of the benefits you will get from hypnotherapy:

• Explore repressed memories such as trauma when losing a loved one to a dread disease.

• Help to eliminate fears that you are in danger of falling victim to cancer, or another serious disease just because you know someone who has suffered from cancer or worse, and you feel that you have similar symptoms.

• Help you to create a new positive mindset that is more focussed with greater emotional and physical control, as well as reduce all issues of self-consciousness.

Many therapists use hypnotherapy in conjunction with neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) a type of therapeutic treatment which helps people learn how to identify and change harmful thought patterns that have a negative influence on behaviour and emotions.

What to expect.

Clinical hypnotherapy is usually conducted in a calm, relaxing environment. You will not be unconscious, asleep, or in any way not in control of yourself. The therapist will guide you into a relaxed, focussed state and help you to think about past experiences in positive ways. 

You will hear the therapist’s suggestions, but you will have the choice of whether or not to act on them.