Hypnotherapy helps self-employed businessman Rob tackle panic attacks
When 26-year-old Rob Ward set up his own company he didn’t bank on one additional obstacle he’d need to climb; stress.
Only stress for Rob meant he suffered up to 4 panic attacks a day and it was affecting the quality of his life.
“I just wanted to go to bed all the time,” he said.
“The only time I felt safe from it was when I was asleep. But then sometimes I’d wake up and have an attack.”
Rob was even rushed to hospital at times because he genuinely thought he was having a heart attack.
But despite seeking help, he was told by doctors that it would pass and that he would have to live with it.
He was referred to a self-help group and was even prescribed pills eventually, but nothing helped.
Rob, who runs his own security alarm company in Coventry, came to me back in April because, despite the fact that he was trying desperately to cope with these attacks and battling on, he had had enough.
“I drive a lot with my job and it was really getting to me. If I had left it any longer I think depression could have taken hold,” he said.
“But it took Russ a couple of hours to help me – not the months, years I’d been told.
“After the treatment I do still get a bit stressed out, but I can totally deal with it. I know the triggers and the warning signs and if I feel it coming on I know how to manage it. It is so much better than it was and it is no longer taking over my life.”
Helping people with panic attacks and anxiety is a subject very close to my heart after I suffered with this condition 15 years ago.
I wrote about how I lived with anxiety recently and I only wish I had taken the initiative to seek help straight away, like Rob.
I use a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnosis I aptly call the Bridge Technique to treat this. Anyone suffering with this condition or knows someone who is, direct them here and let them read Rob’s story - it IS treatable and avoidance only makes matters worse.
