Healthcare Anxiety – Hypnotherapy in Ely & Newmarket

Do you struggle with healthcare anxiety?

Healthcare anxiety can be a constant lingering worry that lurks at the back of your mind. You see things on TV and in the press about health issues. People tell you about their ailments and treatments. Maybe you even have something that you know you should probably get checked out but your anxiety holds you back and leaves you overthinking and worrying about it.

You’ve probably got used to avoiding going to the doctor or having any investigations or tests. Yet you know that in all likelihood, at some point in your life you are going to have to face it head on. Sooner or later, you know that you will need to get something looked at or have something done. Even the thought of it can be enough to raise your blood pressure and give you restless moments.

Medical procedures and appointments are a normal part of life. You may need to visit your GP for a check up, undergo a procedure at hospital or need an injection or blood test. You may be ok with some of these things yet there is some part of healthcare that fills you with immense dread, fear and worry.

With health anxiety, medically related things (sometimes even if for someone else rather than yourself) can fill you with anxiety, dread and fear. You try to avoid medical things. But at some point avoidance no longer becomes an option and you have to face it. That’s when you need to learn how to change your mindset, calm your anxiety, think clearly and change that old healthcare anxiety habit.

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I’ve helped many people to successfully overcome their anxiety about medical related things.

Before they see me, they’ve spent a lifetime avoiding it and putting it off. For some people even going to a doctor’s appointment or walking into a hospital to visit someone is too much. For others, that bit is ok but when there is talk of arranging injections, blood tests or other procedures, they hold off and procrastinate so that their health problem persists. Knowing that something needs to be done just prolongs the dread and panic. There is the ongoing discomfort of knowing you need to do something for your own well-being (and that things may only deteriorate) combined with the dread, worry and panic when you think about taking those next steps.

It almost seems like a balancing act between which you can endure for the longest, your health issues or the constant anxiety. Neither option may seem that great. It’s a cycle of physical, emotional and psychological suffering.

When you know you need to visit your GP for a check up, undergo a procedure at hospital or need an injection, your anxiety and fear start to massively escalate. The thought of it dominates your mind and impacts upon the rest of life. It can cause tension, irritability, restlessness and sleepless nights. Even if your appointment is still quite some way off, you still feel anxious because you know it is coming. It sits near the front of your awareness whenever you can’t distract yourself. Your anxiety may even tell you that things will be catastrophic, maybe even that there won’t be life beyond your appointment or procedure.

You may have had previous unpleasant healthcare experiences or find yourself worrying about the worst case and things going wrong. The unknown, the uncertainty and the sense that you won’t be in control can all contribute to your anxiety and panic.

Hypnotherapy can help you to overcome your health anxiety so that you can face your next appointment or procedure with a sense of calmness and confidence, knowing that you’ll handle it successfully.

This short video provides a little more information about how hypnotherapy can help you to overcome your health anxiety. Have a watch here:

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Healthcare anxiety creates a double edged sword of feeling bad. Either you face it and feel anxious, or you don’t face it and feel anxious. Right now, it probably seems like a no win situation.

With anxiety, you will worry about not being in control and not knowing what might happen. However, the bit you can always learn how to control is your own thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions.  That means that you can leave the medical professionals to do what they are trained to do. And you can then find yourself calm, confident and in control when you think about healthcare, when you go to appointments and no matter what appointments, injections or procedures you may encounter.

Rather than living in fear that something may happen or about your unchecked or untreated health issues, you can face things with calmness knowing that whatever happens, you’ll be ok and you’ll handle it.

To your health and happiness, 

Dan Regan

Award Winning Anxiety Hypnotherapist in Ely & Newmarket

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