| When someone succumbs to repeated anxiety | | | | attacks are medication and psychotherapy. The |
| attacks or panic attacks they are suffering from | | | | medication is typically antidepressants sometimes |
| anxiety or panic disorder. At this stage it is | | | | with beta blockers to help with some of the |
| common for the sufferer to develop persistent | | | | physical symptoms of these attacks. The |
| low level anxiety about when their next attack will | | | | psychotherapeutic treatment is commonly |
| strike and whether they will be able to deal with it | | | | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in which the patient |
| in the situation they might find themselves in | | | | is helped to identify triggers for their attacks and |
| when it does. | | | | to gradually increase their exposure to them. The |
| This general anxiety undermines their confidence | | | | idea is that they learn to reduce their anxiety |
| in their ability to do sometimes even the most | | | | about them and so these triggers lose their |
| ordinary everyday activities. The prospect of | | | | power to bring on anxiety attacks. Added to this |
| taking a plane comes to represent some kind of | | | | will be coping techniques which include breathing |
| dreadful ordeal with the ever present and very | | | | exercises to help the sufferer to relax, and |
| real possibility being overtaken by an anxiety | | | | affirmative thoughts to guide the patient's thinking |
| attack mid flight. Even driving anywhere demands | | | | away from their habitually anxious state. |
| a good deal of consideration and often the | | | | Some sufferers find benefit in Hypnotherapy by |
| sufferer will almost completely abandon the car | | | | which their heightened stress levels, often a key |
| for fear of an attack while in traffic. These kinds | | | | component in their susceptibility to anxiety |
| of severe limitations on someone's ability just to | | | | attacks, can be successfully reduced. This is |
| get around mean they give up a lot of things. | | | | thought to reduce their sensitivity to whatever |
| Holidays are consigned to the past, travelling to | | | | triggers their attacks. |
| see family and friends is dependent on someone | | | | Once a sufferer is diagnosed with anxiety or panic |
| else doing the driving, even going out for the | | | | disorder, prescribed with ongoing medication and |
| evening represents a sizable risk. For many | | | | explored what CBT and Hypnotherapy have to |
| sufferers the world becomes a much smaller | | | | offer they are then facing a possible lifetime of |
| place. | | | | the same. |
| The conventional treatments for anxiety or panic | | | | |