Hypnotherapy can be a useful tool if used with knowledge and skill to help people who are suffering from chronic anxiety and PTSD diagnosed symptoms.  It is effective in processing the initial event and changing the emotive power around the memories with hypnotherapy in conjunction with analysis and other forms of treatment like CBT or EMDR in the framework of the session.

We all struggle with the multiple problems we face in life and feel overwhelmed but having diagnosed PTSD is a mental health condition that is growing because of anything from global conflict to the economic stresses that we are currently facing. PTSD is a consequence of mental and emotional problems people experience in the wake of any ‘trauma’, where the trauma refers to an event involving being a victim of or a witness to atrocity, violence, true horror or death or near-death experiences.

The time frame generally for acute stress is exposure to the events then continuing during the first six months post trauma, if not diagnosed then at this point can lead to PTSD. At the beginning the post trauma the victim or witness starts to have flashbacks or intrusive, thoughts and memories around the traumatic event. Vivid and exaggerated nightmares and thoughts occur during this time which then lead into the next stage, PTSD, which then creates an avoidance or exposure to anything related to the event/events. The third stage is when the post trauma victim reacts with the following symptoms - chronic anxiety symptoms or an exaggerated trauma response. This leaves the individual facing patterns of debility that often become habitual. PTSD can continue for years or have symptoms that can emerge later. There are also dissociative symptoms that can form a part of these conditions to create an unreality around the initialising events.