When we use hypnotherapy for anxiety disorders, a lot of anxiety that we see in our hypnotherapy clinic is accompanied by panic disorder.  This is marked by recurrent, spontaneous panic attacks. A panic attack is an intense period of fear or discomfort. During the attack, a person may experience the following symptoms:

To be diagnosed as a panic attack, four or more symptoms should be present. Otherwise, the attack is described as “limited symptom attack”. Those who experience panic attacks usually describe them as occurring “out of the blue”.  We use hypnotherapy for anxiety to tackle many of the symptoms that sufferers experience.

You probably recognise this as the classic ‘fight or flight’ response that human beings experience when we are in a situation of danger. But during a panic attack, these symptoms seem to arise from out of nowhere. They occur in seemingly harmless situations – they can even happen while you are asleep.