Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety and Worst Case Scenarios

by Dan Regan | Feb 20, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety and Worst Case Scenarios

Anxiety and worst case scenarios go hand in hand. Or, if you prefer, imagined catastrophic scenario by imagined catastrophic scenario.

You start to think about some upcoming situation, person, time or place. Your feelings of anxiety, dread and fear begin to kick in and rise. And that anxiety and fear drives your imagination into all sorts of potential disastrous places. You find yourself thinking of all the things that could go wrong and then your imagination moves onto the ongoing fall out as a result of it. Whatever the particular scenario, it always ends in immense disaster for you.

The more you feel that anxiety and overthink and dwell upon the worst case scenarios, the worse you feel and the more other negative things you can find yourself contemplating. You wonder how you will handle, deal and cope with things when they go wrong, as it seems in your head that they inevitably must. You start to associate anxiety with the things you are thinking about until just a fleeting thought or passing mention of that thing can set you on edge.

It doesn’t matter what the upcoming thing actually is. It could be something coming up at work, a social situation, getting on a plane, making a speech, seeing that person again, or any number of things. And because anxiety can generalise, any other similar things get coloured by the same feelings of anxiety, fear and dread. Anxiety moves on from one thing to the next until soon you find yourself carried along on a wave of feeling worse and worse.

These movies in your mind can take over your thinking and fill you with dread. Even though you know things may not turn out the way you are imagining, you still feel anxious and think of all the worst case scenarios.

Anxiety Hypnosis Download Reviews

by Dan Regan | Feb 20, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks, Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Anxiety Hypnosis Download Reviews

As you’ll already know from reading these articles, one of my biggest passions in life is helping others to overcome their anxiety. Having struggled with anxiety in the past myself, I know how awful if feels when you are filled with dread and fear. It can be debilitating and it limits your life and what you feel able to go and do. It’s like a constant shadow lurking beside you, ready to strike and escalate at any given moment. No wonder people start to feel anxious about the possibility that they may feel anxious.

Yet it is very possible to learn how to calm that anxiety so that you feel more confident and happier in your life. Right now, all those worst case scenarios and catastrophic thoughts, and the bad feelings that go with them, may seem to have a life of their own. That pattern and habit of anxiety seems to do its own thing and you are just forced to endure it and suffer.

However, by learning how to take back control over your own thoughts and feelings, you can start to feel better in yourself. You aren’t looking to never feel anxious again because sometimes a reasonable and proportionate feeling of anxiety is needed in certain situations to help you to look after yourself. But you can certainly get rid of the unnecessary anxiety, that stuff that impacts upon you negatively when you know there is no real reason for it. Life would be good without that anxiety and it is certainly possible for you to accomplish that.

And one of the things that can help with overcoming anxiety are hypnosis downloads. All of my anxiety clients get a copy of my anxiety relief hypnosis download and many others have benefited too after grabbing a copy from my online shop. It becomes one of your most useful and proactive tools for managing your own thoughts and feelings.

Free Relaxation Hypnosis Download

by Dan Regan | Feb 17, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks, Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Free Relaxation Hypnosis Download

It’s been a manic start to the year for all sorts of reasons. And when things get busy, it is easy to start to feel overwhelmed. That in turn can lead to overthinking, trouble switching off, anxiety, stress and a sense of psychological loneliness.

If you have been struggling with anxiety, stress and overthinking then hypnotherapy can help you (just check out the reviews on this website!) and it is worth coming along to find out how you can take back control over your habitual thoughts and feelings and so feel better.

Yet I think everyone can benefit from taking the time to mentally and physically switch off and recharge. In these days of busyness and constant demands, as well as constant stimulus from screens, having some time to truly switch off is often seen as a luxury. Taking some time for yourself is seen as an addition to life, rather than a fundamental.

And so if you could use some help to mentally relax, recharge and reset then do head over and grab your copy of my free relaxation hypnosis download. It’s a gift from me to you and from you to your sense of well-being. I think you’l enjoy it (at least based upon what other people tell me). You can get it here right now:

Anxiety and Certainty – Hypnotherapy Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Jul 5, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety and Certainty – Hypnotherapy Ely and Newmarket

If you struggle with anxiety then you already know how you can quickly and easily get caught up in the whirlwind of anxious thoughts and feelings. Your head fills with all the possible worst case scenarios about what is going to happen in some future time, situation, circumstance or event. You catastrophise, dwell and overthink all the possible bad stuff that could be coming your way.

As if that constant stream of negative thinking wasn’t enough, you also struggle with the unpleasant and uncomfortable anxious feelings and sensations that take over how you feel. You feel agitated, restless and tense. Your heart may race and you can have trouble switching off. You may struggle to rest, eat, sleep and even function.

Whether your mind fixes on one worst case thing that could happen or your thinking jumps, races and cycles from one thing to the next faster than you can grasp it, the end result is that you feel anxious, worried and down.

Anxiety thrives on uncertainty and the unknown. You have no way of knowing how things will pan out and so your anxious imagination and focus can run wild with possibilities. Whether you picture scenarios in your mind or have a running conversation with yourself, there is dread, worry and a sense of impending doom. Of course, because your anxiety is about some future thing, it is impossible to get total certainty over what might happen and you just can’t be completely sure that everything will be ok.

Because you can’t know what will happen, your anxious thoughts and feelings flow into that space of uncertainty. You feel anxious and that drives your imagination to find a focus for your fear. You imagine the worst and that ramps up your anxious feelings. The worse you feel, the more you can find to worry about and dread. You may even find yourself going beyond that initial catastrophe and focusing upon all the ongoing future waves and ripples of disaster that you worry will follow on from it.

So how can you take back control over your anxious thoughts and feelings even in the face of that lack of certainty?

Storm of Anxiety Hypnosis Download Now Available

by Dan Regan | Jun 3, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Storm of Anxiety Hypnosis Download Now Available

I’m very pleased to update you that my Storm of Anxiety Hypnosis Download is now available and ready to help you.

I covered this awesome anxiety alleviating process some time ago in one of my articles.

It’s all about how anxiety can come crashing down upon you like some sort of emotional storm. All may be well and you feel relatively ok in yourself. And then things seem to darken and you find yourself overwhelmed and over run with all your anxious thoughts and feelings. It’s very easy to get swept along by those worst case scenarios and catastrophes that swirl through your mind. And, along with this, you feel worse and worse as the uncomfortable and unpleasant anxious feelings sink into every part of your body.

With the emotional anxiety storm upon you, everything seems unsteady and unstable. There is a dark cloud over you that you can struggle to disperse. Faced with anxiety, it can be hard to stay grounded and present enough to let the emotional storm pass.

Anxiety storms can vary in their severity and duration. Sometimes things pass on quickly and at other times it just seems like the storm is never ending and that you will never feel better. This Storm of Anxiety hypnosis download will help you to stay present and grounded when an anxiety storm falls upon you. Through practice and repetition you get better and better at calmly handling whatever unwanted thoughts and feelings may come your way in life and getting through it all with renewed confidence and resilience.

Anxiety Hypnotherapy Reviews

by Dan Regan | Jun 1, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety Hypnotherapy Reviews

Writing as someone who used to struggle with anxiety issues, I know how limiting, distressing and debilitating it can be. I also know that it is very possible to overcome unnecessary anxiety and how wonderful and freeing that feels. Having been there, it probably explains why I cover anxiety so often in my articles. I probably also (at least partly) explains why I get such good results with anyone who comes to me for help with anxiety. I’ve been there and I get it.

When you struggle with anxiety, it can be a very lonely place. You can get lost in your own uncomfortable feelings and negative thoughts. Your focus is all internal and you can feel disconnected from other people and things. Sometimes it feels like no one around you understands. Or it may be that you try to hide from them what is going on for you at the moment. It can feel like you are on your own and that no one else is struggling in the way that you are right now.

That’s why, in this article today, I’m sharing some recent anxiety hypnotherapy reviews. I want you to know that there is hope and that there is support available that can help you to quickly and effectively soon feel better.

Dan Regan Hypnotherapy in Ely Standard

by Dan Regan | May 25, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Dan Regan Hypnotherapy in Ely Standard

I recently wrote all about my exciting news from the SME Ely Business Awards. In case you missed it, I was honoured to win the gold award for Business Person of the Year! I’m still gobsmacked!

You can read all about it here: Ely Business Person of the Year!!!

Thank you so much to all of you who have sent me messages of congratulations and who have said well done. I’m still catching up with all the emails and positive comments on social media. I was overwhelmed to win the award and I’m so grateful that so many of you think I’m such a worthy winner. Thank you so much!

I also won the silver award for innovation and so now all five of my Ely Business Awards that I’m accumulated are sitting very happily in my office (I’ve covered previous awards elsewhere).

And this week Dan Regan Hypnotherapy is in the Ely Standard. I’m very grateful to the paper for covering the awards.

Emetophobia and Fear of Vomiting – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Apr 30, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks, Phobias and Fears

Emetophobia and Fear of Vomiting – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

Emetophobia and the fear of vomiting are a much more common anxiety issue than many people realise. Only recently I was talking to an anxiety client who mentioned in passing that she also has a fear of being sick. It’s one of those irrational fears that rarely gets talked about and can be hidden quite well and so many sufferers feel pretty alone with their worry.

Emetophobia is a fear of vomiting or of seeing other people being sick. Although it can be hidden quite well by avoidance, the anxious thoughts and feelings can creep into all sorts of situations, can dominate your planning before you do anything and can have a limiting impact upon your life. As with most anxiety and fear, you fear being out of control in a situation whether either you or someone else is, or could be, sick. Yet, in trying to control for the possibility of it happening, you actually feel less and less in control.

You may worry that you will be sick and so you pay attention to every physical sensation you have, especially in your stomach or throat. Many people with emetophobia that I work with may not have actually been sick for a long time. As a result, they can become convinced that every physical sensation is a sign that this is the time it is going to happen, that this time is different and that you are going to vomit. Of course, that anxiety causes more physical sensations and so your anxiety and fear spiral upwards higher and higher.

Some people with a fear of vomiting are only worried about being sick themselves. For many, there is also the fear of seeing others being sick (which could bring the increased risk that you will also then be sick). You may avoid some situations around others, or activities you associate with an increased risk of people being unwell. You may even struggle watching if an actor on TV is sick. Certain sounds, such as coughing or burping, may place you on edge. And if you know someone has been unwell then you probably try to avoid them, even if they are now better again. Rather than being supportive and empathetic, if someone says they feel sick then your first instinct is to get away.

Being sick or around someone being sick is an unpleasant experience. Most people get through it, forget about it and move on if it happens. With emetophobia, the fear and anxiety lurks and influences your decisions before you do anything. You can be on high alert in public places. And if something was to happen, it already feels like it would be the worst possible thing that could ever happen to you.

Pets and Anxiety: National Pet Month

by Dan Regan | Apr 29, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Pets and Anxiety: National Pet Month

It’s National Pet Month and an opportunity to celebrate responsible pet ownership as well as the many benefits of having a pet as your companion. To be honest I didn’t actually know it was national pet month until I had an email trying to sell me pet insurance to cover my dog or cat (I don’t have a dog or a cat). Yet having a pet is something I have covered before because of the potential mental health benefits that come with having a little companion in your life.

We have two lovely rabbits at home and with the weather improving it’s my favourite time with them. Now that the weather is generally drier, we can let the two of them run out and about all around our garden. They eat the grass, sniff everything, hide behind plant pots and generally just seem to have a lovely time. During the fun times, the rabbits belong to all of us in the house and then as soon as they need clearing out they become my daughters responsibility! It is lovely thought to see them munching and running their way around the garden for hours at a time.

As well as the general enjoyment of pet ownership, pets can have a positive impact upon your mental health and sense of well-being too. With regard to pets and anxiety, your pet can bring you companionship and a focus outside your own thinking. Being responsible for your pet means you have to keep busy and get stuff done (such as exercise, cleaning, feeding, checking, sharing time and so on). The connection and emotional bond you have with your pet can help you to manages aspects of your anxiety and can support your mental health.

Exam Stress Hypnosis in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Apr 23, 2024 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Exam Stress Hypnosis in Ely and Newmarket

Exam season is upon us and that means revision and focus. It can also mean exam stress and anxiety.

I can well remember the revision season back when I was at school and university. Day one of revision was drawing up a nicely coloured timetable to make sure everything would get covered. Then, armed with my very pretty timetable, it was head down and going everything all over again. The first wave was always reading, making sure I understood the content and getting my notes written up. These notes were then what I would religiously review, learn and memorise the day before the exam. I would go over and over them, covering them up and testing myself, until I could almost recite the information word for word.

With all the information going through my head and feeling a bit stressed, I would always struggle to sleep the night before. There were just so many bits of information going around and around my head when I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. On the morning of the exam I would usually avoid talking about it with others, especially that person who is always there before an exam who claims to have done no revision (which seems plain daft, particularly as you could normally see they had a bag full of revision notes with them). Then it was into the exam room, take my seat and then block out everything else until that moment where we were allowed to turn over the exam paper and begin. I would do my best to leave all the information into my exam answers and then to leave and forget all about it. It was then onto the next exam subject and repeat.

The period around your exams can be intense and stressful. I’ve been watching my daughter as she prepares for her GCSE exams this year. It’s all perhaps a little harder now with so much information only accessible online and so many other distractions waiting for you every time you look at the screen. All I had to distract me around exam time was my ZX Spectrum or watching something on one of the four available channels on television. I’ve been very proud of the way my daughter has been applying herself to her revision. As an added bonus she is doing catering so I got to enjoy a freshly made scone with home made blueberry jam yesterday as she did a run through for her practical exam.

We all know that a little bit of exam stress can be helpful. It gives you motivation and focus to revise and then perform to your best in the exam room. However, too much stress and your ability to function gets compromised. You can feel restless, tense, agitated and on edge. You can struggle to eat and sleep. And you may struggle to think clearly, focus on what you need to and to remember what you have learnt. It can diminish the success of your revision and can leave you anxious and unable to perform in the exam room.

However, there is a solution that can support you with doing your best in the exam room. Exam stress hypnosis can help you to manage your thoughts and feelings so that you can capably revise and learn before putting into practice in your exam so that you perform calmly and confidently on the day.

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