We will soon be running a Stress and Anxiety Workshop at Foreman & Jones Integrated Health Practice, Hythe – to read more look here.
Last week we wrote an article about the fight or flight response and the changes that response creates in the human body. This article will discuss how those changes affect the healthy individual when this response is triggered too often.
In our daily life our stressors and threats have changed – we don’t only experience a threat when we are out catching our food (as with the cavemen). Our stress these days is more about financial concerns, relationship problems, and family issues, amongst other things. We may worry about our jobs, worry about our children, or worry about not getting enough sleep. This means that the period of time in between episodes of stress can for some people be very short and therefore the body does not have enough time in between episodes to right itself and anxiety becomes the dominant ‘normal’ state.
As a kent-based hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner I regularly see patients for whom anxiety is a problem, and this can manifest itself in the following ways:
• Palpitations
• Racing heart
• Nervousness
• Fatigue
• Insomnia / Sleeplessness / Wakefulness
• High blood pressure
• Irritable bowel syndrome or other bowel problems
• Indigestion
• Dry mouth
• Increased sweating
• Fainting attacks
• Shortness of breath
• Restlessness
• Difficulty concentrating
• Mind going blank
• Irritability
• Muscle tension
• Feeling you are unable to cope
• Fear of fear itself
Sometimes the anxiety can be triggered by:
o negative emotions that are hard to shake (such as guilt, humiliation, sadness, anger)
o a problem that you don’t know how to overcome, so you can only worry about it
o relationship problems
o job insecurity
o a lack of direction
o social phobias
o lack of confidence
o low self-esteem
o tiredness in itself
o emotional exhaustion
o endocrine disturbances (hyperthyroidism, pre-menstrual tension, adrenal deficiency)
o overuse of stimulants (tea, coffee, alcohol, cigarettes)
o vitamin B1 deficiency
o conflict
You may be wondering which of these causes may be at play in your case and I would be happy to speak to you about this. Contact us here.
Read last week’s article here.
Hayley Jones, Foreman & Jones, Hythe, Kent.
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