To what extent does research support a link between stress and illness? When you are stressed, your stress response system is activated and in order for your stress response system to work effectively, your body must shut down other systems, e.g. the digestive system and the immune system. Seeing as your immune system shuts down, this will make you more prone to illness. The stress response is experienced when you feel like you’re encountering a threat and don’t know how to deal with it.
Common requests for hypnotherapy treatment are those related to stress, anxiety, habits and phobias. An understanding of the relationship between these disorders, examining the similarities and the differences between each, provides the therapist with information useful in deciding how and if to treat these disorders. It could also be argued that each client is different and each may have differing symptoms to another client, thus the therapist should review each client on a one to one basis. Stress, anxiety, habits and phobias are very similar neurotic conditions, however there are boundaries between each of them making them unique conditions. Therefore, it is important for the client to be reviewed in hypnotherapy on a one to one basis and not as a group, which could in turn result in a less effective form of treatment being provided.
Author: JE Word Count: 2167 ‘Discuss the relationship between stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy’ This essay will explore, describe and discuss individually each of the conditions of stress, anxiety, habits and phobias. How each are identified and subsequently treated with hypnotherapy these neurotic conditions are the most common requests for hypnotherapy. The relationship that exists between each of these conditions will be identified, explored and discussed in more detail throughout. I will also consider the ethical questions that need to be considered by the therapist when treating this group of clients and appropriate treatment regimes. The topic of the essay will then be revisited and a detailed conclusion will summarise composition.
Discuss The Relationship Between Stress, Anxiety, Habits And Phobias And Describe How You Would Treat These Issues With Hypnotherapy Stress can mean something different to everyone, some people flourish from it, and for some people it can have a disastrous effect on how they live their lives ‘’as a person perpetuates stress and continues to endure excessive tension, he may experience an escalating frenzy or become a candidate for stress-related illness’’ Hadley et al (1996) Hypnotherapy can be extremely helpful to someone in this position by helping them to rebuild their perspective on how they see the things that make them stressed and by creating a way for them to cope in that situation, ‘’stress that begins to debilitate or produce depression is completely undesirable. Such a condition calls for change. And while you may not be able to change the world, you can change your reaction to it.’’ Hadley et al (1996) Stress isn’t always a bad thing and it can be very useful to some, ‘’we all need a certain amount of stress in our lives or we would not be motivated to do anything at all’’ Chrysalis SC (2010) There are six categories in which stress can be categorised Chrysalis SC (2010) let us know what these different types of stress are ‘’ * Hypo stress: Lack of motivation, bored and unchallenged. * Eustress: This is a positive stress that increases performance and motivation. * Acute Stress: Felt through tension and physical disturbance.
Fortunately, we know that given the right tools most people are able to cope with stress and anxiety in a productive way. We learn to recognise and deal with certain trigger situations effectively-quite often through relaxation. We all need a certain amount of stress in our lives or we would not be motivated to do anything – however, there are various levels of stress and they need to be recognised in order to cope effectively. * Hypo Stress: - is when a person is bored or unchallenged and lacking in motivation. People doing repetitive and tedious jobs find it hard to be motivated in other areas of their lives.
* There is distress in aspects of life such as social and occupational functioning. * Phobia – Please list ALL diagnostic criteria for this disorder? * Phobia is characterized by persistent and unreasonable fear of an object, activity, and/or situation. * When encountering or even thinking about these specific objects, activities, or situations fear immediately presents itself and an immediate anxiety response is provoked. * People who are suffering from phobias can often realize that their fear is irrational but thinking about it causes extreme anxiety.
Not only does Holden fear adulthood himself, but he also wants to save others from becoming adults. As he explains about his dream job we learn that Holden’s only place in life is to catch people who fall from the rye. A global issue is people who suffer from Tropophobia. Tropophobia is the fear of changes. Tropophobia is caused by severe trauma that is somehow linked to moving or sudden changes.
It is then repeatedly used but often has a damaging effect on the person. This can be identified as being deliberate or intentional behaviour that has a clear, definite or probably negative effect. People are more likely to have a self-defeating or destructive manner when either there are threats made to their egos or when they have low self-esteem. When people have low self-esteem they are more likely to be susceptible to having depression, anxiety and emotional distress, which are problems that are usually directly related to low self-appraisal. There are many examples of self-defeating behaviours like, being needy, guilty, envious, angry, obsessive, rebellious, addictions, eating disorders, procrastination, controlling, gossiping, self-doubt and depression.
B. Watson, a psychology professor. This approach to counselling refers to a number of methods of counselling that all have similar approaches to solving problems. Cognitive-behavioural counselling is used to treat a wide range of disorders including depression and addiction, and the aim is to change the patterns of thinking or behaviour that are behind their problems. Furthermore, the counsellor employs techniques that will give the client the power to recognise negative thoughts and behaviour, and help them develop
I feel that any of these disorders can be either caused by depression or depression can be a symptom of them. With insomnia, people become depressed because they are generally exhausted and find it hard to get up and being so exhausted makes you very emotional and it is very hard. Anorexia is the same, a person can either be depressed because they have been picked on and they become anorexic or the anorexia depresses them because cannot control it. With all of these disorders, nature and nurture have to both be taken in to account to successfully be able to diagnose and treat these disorders. All of these disorders, and more, can be treated with cognitive-behavioral