Weekly Thought's - Stress & Anxiety

Stress and Anxiety - Teenage Years ...

In teenage years stress is very common and is generally about self-concept, E.g. ‘I hate my hair, I look fat in these jeans’. etc ... Stress can affect us just as much as food and exercise can. It can either help with problems or make them worse and it’s all to do with our emotional and physical demands. Everyone lives under stress. Before anyone can control stress they have to know what it feels like. Some of the feelings from stress are:

• Lack of sleep, which makes you tired.
• Mood change, for no apparent reason.
• Unable to concentrate.
• Getting emotional over minor things.
• Headaches.
• Nightmares.
• Becoming prone to accidents.
• Hungry all the time.
• No motivation to do anything.
• No enthusiasm.

These are some of the most common complaints that happen to most people when they are stressed and are often re-occuring. If you don’t know how to recognise and respond to stress you wont know that it’s affecting you.

Anxiety in some respect's can be helpful, as it alerts us and helps us to know if things are right or wrong. It also helps us to deal with difficult and dangerous situations. However if there is too much anxiety it can get out of control and stop us from functioning correctly, which is why we need to know how to deal with it. There is no accurate explanation of Anxiety but there are a number of emotional, physical and mental changes in the body that we can recognise, which will vary from person to person and may include:

• Vomiting or Diarrhoea.
• Dry mouth.
• Difficulties with swallowing.
• Sweating.
• Hot flushes, chills.
• Shortness of breath.
• Dizziness.
• Sleeping.

Hypnotherapy can help stress by helping you to recognise stress levels in the moment and also helps you to avoid these stress levels in the future. It helps the unconscious learn and teaches relaxation techniques and exercises to help you relax when a stressful situation arises. It also helps with positive thinking and assertiveness, which helps you to cope with stressful situations.

Hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for stress symptoms such as insomnia, muscle tension, rushing, worrying, etc and is also a great approach to dealing with stress and anxiety before the symptoms ever arise.

For more info see http://www.tombarber.co.uk/stress_hypnotherapy.htm

Till next,

Tom.