Discuss The Relationship Between Stress Anxiety And Phobias
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Sue Smith 1831
Discuss the relationship between stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues using hypnotherapy.
Stress and anxiety are the natural reactions to fear and change. There is no single cause of stress and we will all have experienced it at times in our lives. It can be potentially very harmful, both physiologically and psychologically and professionals agree it is vital that we try to understand the causes of our stress, in order to prevent or at least minimise it.
It is believed there are three identifiable models of stress; things that happen to a person (not what happens within a person), things that happen within a person and thirdly, stress that arises from interactions with people and their environment. (Richard D. Gross. pg 186). There are also differences in how people attempt to cope with the stresses they face in everyday …show more content…
This may lead them to develop habits, such as smoking or over eating. A habit is described as encompassing a certain group of conditions, including an unhealthy repetitive behaviour that is somewhat out of the person’s control. Such behaviours can include, nail biting, thumb sucking, hair pulling (Trichotillomania) and the excessive use of tobacco, food and alcohol. These habits could in a more complex case develop into an addiction, i.e., to food, alcohol or drugs.
A person with a habit will avoid interrupting them, as these although largely negative coping mechanisms, prove a much needed tool, especially during times of severe emotional and psychological distress. Thy serve their purpose during intense periods of upheaval, but can also develop into psychologically and physically damaging behaviours, compulsions or even addictions. To the person with the habits, it is seen to them as ‘meeting their
Sue Smith 1831
Discuss the relationship between stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues using hypnotherapy.
Stress and anxiety are the natural reactions to fear and change. There is no single cause of stress and we will all have experienced it at times in our lives. It can be potentially very harmful, both physiologically and psychologically and professionals agree it is vital that we try to understand the causes of our stress, in order to prevent or at least minimise it.
It is believed there are three identifiable models of stress; things that happen to a person (not what happens within a person), things that happen within a person and thirdly, stress that arises from interactions with people and their environment. (Richard D. Gross. pg 186). There are also differences in how people attempt to cope with the stresses they face in everyday …show more content…
This may lead them to develop habits, such as smoking or over eating. A habit is described as encompassing a certain group of conditions, including an unhealthy repetitive behaviour that is somewhat out of the person’s control. Such behaviours can include, nail biting, thumb sucking, hair pulling (Trichotillomania) and the excessive use of tobacco, food and alcohol. These habits could in a more complex case develop into an addiction, i.e., to food, alcohol or drugs.
A person with a habit will avoid interrupting them, as these although largely negative coping mechanisms, prove a much needed tool, especially during times of severe emotional and psychological distress. Thy serve their purpose during intense periods of upheaval, but can also develop into psychologically and physically damaging behaviours, compulsions or even addictions. To the person with the habits, it is seen to them as ‘meeting their