Panic Disorder and Hypnotherapy

With palpitations, sweating, tightness in the chest and shortness of breath that start suddenly and for no apparent reason, the person feels that he is having a 'heart attack' or that he is having a brain hemorrhage and ' due to high blood pressure. He/she thinks that he/she is having a stroke and experiences an intense "fear of death" or "fear of being paralyzed". We said "for no apparent reason", but there are definitely traumas, etc. that have affected the person a lot, or something that continues to affect them, in the subconscious or, more accurately, the unconscious. Therefore, drug treatment alone is often insufficient. Panic attacks often recur when medications are stopped. Because only with psychotherapy under hypnosis, cognitive distortions such as perspectives, misinterpretations, etc. are eliminated. Panic disorder can only be treated in this way. Therefore, under hypnosis, it is necessary to try to resolve the trauma or fears by reaching the unconscious causes of panic. Otherwise, the disease will recur immediately when the medications are stopped. For this reason, every drug withdrawal ends in disappointment and the person has to take the drug again. Long-term drug use also causes weight gain, sexual reluctance in both genders, inability to orgasm, and erection and ejaculation problems in men; It causes a decrease in the quality of life due to conduction disorders in the heart. He constantly has his hand on his pulse and a blood pressure monitor on his arm, goes from doctor to doctor, goes to emergency rooms, becomes sick with illness and cannot even leave the house (agoraphobic attitudes).

Sometimes With the emergence of feelings such as a strange feeling in the head, a feeling of lightheadedness, dizziness, feeling like you are going to faint, feeling yourself or your surroundings strange or different, you may begin to 'lose control' or ' Thinking that he is going crazy, he begins to fear harming himself or those around him. Patients are frequently taken to the doctor or the emergency room. In many examinations, films, ECG, MRI, tomography and other examinations performed there, nothing physical is found. But sometimes the patient does not believe these and goes back and forth from doctor to doctor, performing unnecessary tests, including a very risky cardiac catheterization (angiography). is. Some patients are treated for dizziness by Neurology and ENT departments for years with a diagnosis of vertigo, but no result can be reached. Some patients are diagnosed with essential hypertension and use blood pressure medication for years. Some of them cannot eat the food they want due to the diagnosis of colitis, and their lives are restricted and turned into a dungeon due to medications, asthma medications, worsening, and recently allergy, especially GLUTEN ALLERGY diagnoses and tests, etc. The patient continues to relive the same horror and fear with each new attack and is transported to emergency rooms and doctors in various branches. Each time, re-examinations and re-examinations are performed, but nothing can be found.

As the attacks continue to recur. During the period between attacks, the patient becomes tense, restless and anxious, expecting a new panic attack to occur at any moment. This anxious waiting is called 'anticipatory anxiety'. The fact that attacks often occur at uncertain times and places increases this anxiety even more. As attacks become more frequent, fears of dying from a heart attack, being paralyzed, or losing control and going crazy are reinforced. Patients are strongly afraid of having a heart attack when no one is at home and dying before reaching the hospital, or of losing control and going crazy and committing suicide, of harming themselves or their relatives with a knife or something similar, or of being embarrassed by acting crazy and strange in the presence of others. They feel intense distress and anxiety because these thoughts constantly come to their mind. After a while, they begin to take some precautions and change some of their behaviors against the attacks and the "disasters" they believe will occur during the attacks. They give up activities, foods and drinks that they think may cause attacks. They use alcohol/substances/medicines when leaving the house to combat attacks. They also carry medicine, water, food, etc. to use during attacks. they carry. They take precautions against what may happen during attacks.

More than 60% of patients begin to avoid places and situations where attacks will occur. He cannot stay at home alone, cannot go out alone, cannot take vehicles such as buses, ferries, sea buses or elevators, cannot walk in narrow streets. They cannot cross bridges or enter crowded places such as marketplaces and large stores. Sometimes, they can only go to such places with someone else, feeling intense anxiety and discomfort. The inability of patients to go to places where they think they will have a panic attack or to stay in such places is called 'agoraphobia'.