Dr Claire Weekes' approach to anxiety and panic really works
There are many “easy”, “painless”, and “quick” or even “instantaneous” ways of overcoming anxiety. If they worked even a fraction as well as they claim to you wouldn’t be reading this. Everyone who had ever had an anxiety disorder would have paid their $99.99 and would now be living a life of abundance, control and pure happiness. Yet they are not.
The reason they are not is because the vast majority of these quick and easy cures are little more than gimmicks or money making exercises. There is a simple truth that I advise you to note now and learn to believe in. You are going to get over your anxiety disorder but it is going to involve input from you. There is hard but fulfilling work ahead of you.
Imagine this: a hypnotherapist “cures” you through regression and your life starts to return to normal. Six months later and at thirty thousand feet up over the Atlantic you are suddenly gripped by anxiety and panic! Your phobia has returned! What are you going to do? Grit your teeth and bare it, and wonder how the hell you will get home at the end of your stay? That is precisely why any cure must come from within you, and be in your control.
Let me put it like this. Most people with anxiety are not afraid of flying, shopping malls, underground trains, or anything else. They are scared of anxiety. They are scared of panic. They are scared that they will lose control, go mad, or die. Anxiety feels nasty as does panic, that is their purpose. Remember what anxiety is, it’s nature’s way of telling you that you are in danger, that you need to run away or fight. It is not nature’s way of making you go mad, lose control, or die. It is your body’s strongest protection mechanism and it’s an extremely good one. In your case it has become over sensitive, it reacts too easily and scares you too much causing you to run away unnecessarily. You have become over-sensitised to your fight or flight reflex, you check it repeatedly and if it shows any sign of excitement you encourage it. What is more, instead of reacting to life’s dangers, you have trained it to react to itself. When your flight or fight reflex kicks in it becomes scared of itself, and tells you to run away from it. As you become more scared of your flight or fight reaction, your flight or fight reaction encourages you to escape all the more. How does it do this? By creating more anxiety or panic of course! It is the ultimate viscous circle... Continued on Page 2.
