Fear, Anxiety & Panic Attacks

FEAR and its close companion ANXIETY, in many ways represent a hard-wired alarm system in the brain in search of genuine life -threatening dangers. We are equipped to respond to threats instantaneously. We respond to danger signals, however, we have now come to associate some danger signals with social problems. The number of phobias today may represent the overreaction of life-preserving mechanisms to normal everyday social stimuli. Social stimuli include the fear of the unknown, fear of a terrorist attack, spread of disease, etc.

It is traditional to think about fear and anxiety as a battle ultimately waged between the rational and irrational minds, between human reason and human fear. 10 to 15 percent of adults in America suffer from some sort of anxiety based disorder, which include PANIC ATTACKS and PHOBIAS. For every individual with an anxiety disorder, many more are affected by it, including spouses, children, other relatives, friends and employers.

The experience of irrational fear and anxiety represents a battle between conscious memory and unconscious emotional memory. Human experiments have confirmed that FEAR travels in two distinct circuits in the brain, one of which threads its way through the higher, cortical thinking precincts of the brain and one which seems to occur with lightening speed just below the radar of our awareness. The brain processes sights and sounds, including threatening ones in milliseconds, while the simplest thought takes full seconds to develop.

The part of the brain that instantaneously experiences FEAR when you hear a loud bang, or feel an earthquake is called the amygdala or central nucleus. Nerves running out of this area carry the messages that control heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, respiration, freezing, increased jumpiness; all the engines that get revved up in a fearful situation. The wiring does not stop there. Other nerve fibers thread their way back into the uppermost part of the brain, to regions that control release of stress hormones which may play a part in the region of irrational fears, to the cortex and to sensory areas. When a threat occurs and when imminent danger needs to be sorted out RIGHT AWAY, alarms go off throughout the brain; the result is a very alert individual.

We experience, learn and unconsciously commit to emotional memory many fearful situations, without ever being aware of what has triggered the racing heart and quick pulse. During a panic attack, the victim cannot understand what has triggered such a powerful reaction. The implication of fear-conditioning is that we have a separate memory of fearful stimulus, be it a loud noise or a shaking ground, we have either heard it or felt it before, but do not consciously remember it. The amount of environmental information coming into the brain at any given moment, not to mention terrifying moments, is probably more than the conscious mind can keep up with so we store it in the subconscious mind, just waiting for the right circumstances to trigger the effect again.

Hypnotherapy is a very powerful tool and has shown remarkable positive results in those individuals who are seeking relief from FEAR, ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS and PHOBIAS.

Source: IMDHA

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