Using Clinical Hypnotherapy To Overcome Fear of Death

Using Clinical Hypnotherapy To Overcome Fear of Death

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Hypnosis to Stop Fear of Death?

 

The fear of death is a universal fear experienced by many people, although cultural and societal preferences can strongly support levels in which they deal with this subject. People have their own perspectives on death influenced by individual, social and also philosophical idea systems that shape an individual’s mindful or unconscious habits.

 

Our attitudes regarding death are affixed deeply to our human feelings/emotions. These feelings are triggered when we have closeness to someone who has passed. This makes us very mindful of our own mortality and can trigger those deep human feelings/emotions causing an anxiousness and or uneasiness.

 

How to Conquer Fear of Death?

 

Stacey was an 11-year-old girl that lived with her parents and two younger brothers and sisters. Stacey’s daddy worked as a traveling salesman, while her mommy was a homemaker. Both parents brought her to an intake meeting at an outpatient center concentrating on anxiety as well as depression as a result of worries concerning her problems resting in the evening.

 

Her stress and anxiety worsened after the death of her uncle, which was ten months prior to intake. Particularly, Stacey experienced enhanced problem separating from her mom and dad, isolating from her good friends, as well as considerable distress when dealing with processing her uncle’s untimely demise. Her physical symptoms included migraines, stomachaches, irritability, and also trouble resting.

 

Stacey’s worries fixated on her family’s security as well as health. Stacey’s thoughts were constantly on her family, wondering whether they were “doing all right.” Her constant fret about her household led to a strong demand for control.

 

She required a lot of reassurance from her immediate relatives since she was especially worried about her bereaved auntie so she would certainly “check up” on her whenever possible. Her anxiety would worsen whenever her parents were apart given that her dad also traveled extensively for business.

 

Any type of reference of war, considering that her uncle served in the armed forces, other friends discussing their uncles, or scenes of fatality in movies would absolutely activate her invasive thoughts regarding her uncle. Stacey went to twenty-two sessions covering nine months. Her mom and dad were also seen for two additional conferences.

 

The first half of treatment concentrated on dealing skills purchase, including affective understanding, relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, problem resolving, as well as self-reward. Stacey reacted positively to the suggestions as well as exercised her skills beyond the initial sessions. Both Stacey and also her mother noted that the sessions and the abilities were helpful in that Stacey was taking advantage of her involvement in therapy.

 

The remainder of the treatment concentrated on exercising the coping skills in real-life anxiety-provoking circumstances. In-session and take home exposure activities were developed to resolve Stacey’s social problems, separation anxiety, and bereavement-related concerns.

 

After addressing her depressive signs and symptoms, therapy ended as Stacey had obtained coping abilities to handle future problems.

 

How to Overcome the Fear of Death

 

Thanatophobia is an exaggerated, particular, organized concern of fatality. It appears in childhood and continuously expands over the years, as well as in the old age, it is accompanied with nosophobia and also various other mental illnesses. The aim of this research study was to evaluate thanatophobia in dialyses patients, which remained in the straight connection with a basic disorder, and the influence of this condition on working as well as the lifestyle of the clients on dialysis.

 

In this study, researchers analyzed over seven hundred fifty people from the chronic program of dialysis in a period from 1999 to 2004. The patients were separated into two teams which included over three hundred forty randomized individuals with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN), as well as the control group of patients with incurable kidney deficiency, as well as various other diagnoses. Considering that the research was a comparative, cross-sectional one, the individuals were evaluated by the ideal questionnaires for stress and anxiety, depression and general psychological functioning. Analytical evaluation was done by the basic detailed and also analytic statistic approaches.

 

Based upon socio-demographics data, the researchers revealed a very substantial difference concerning the location of living in between the teams BEN and the control group, the frequency of incident of kidney co-morbidity along with the frequency of family renal co-morbidity in brothers or sisters. Basing upon the various psychiatry ranges, the patients from the BEN team were considerably much more nervous as well as depressive than those of the control group.

 

Researchers concluded that the signs of thanatophobia were disclosed in both analyzed groups, yet considerably more in the patients with BEN compared to in those dealing with various other nephrologic illnesses. The fear of death typically began prior to dialysis, and also dialysis structured it right into the anxiety of death, which remains in a straight link to the standard condition. They also concluded that the extensive anxiety may also be directly correlated with dementia as well as depression, in addition to various other mental illnesses.

 

Using Relaxation Techniques to Deal With Death Anxiety

 

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The patient in this study was a 54-year-old retired pilot. John was hospitalized because of heart disease and cardiomyopathy, and also an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator was implanted for him following surgery. After handling his child’s recent fatality, within a week, he developed ventricular tachycardia because of heart problems and also was surprised by ICD as well as his ventricular tachycardia was managed.

 

After that, for one month, he was regularly terrified of persistent shock and reported being afraid of visiting the bathroom alone and prevented thoughts, he likewise prevented the places that reminded him of dealing with his mortality.

 

Due to having excessive stress and anxiety, he had in some initial thoughts of ending his own life, but he was worried concerning being separated from his other family members. He still loved his wife and other kids. It was discovered that he had three issues of avoidance symptoms, and also hyper-arousal signs and symptoms. Taking into consideration the diagnosis of post traumatic stress associated with his initial surgery, John was treated with cognitive-behavioral psychiatric therapy.

 

The misconceptions of the patient regarding anxiety associated with his heart condition were examined as well as holding psychotherapy sessions to better explain his current situation. Later on, mindfulness and problem fixing techniques to go over the John’s mental troubles were managed in eight sessions.

 

After the cognitive-behavioral therapy and hypnotic suggestions treatment, the re-experiencing and avoidance habits were noticeably decreased as well as active cautious signs were managed. The remission continued to exist six months after the treatment. The rating of the anxiety was substantially reduced in the compliance with the follow-up after the eighth session.

 

It’s a common thread amongst us to start contemplating our death from time to time. A lot of us start to think of the truth that we may have fewer years to live and also the fact of dealing with the uncertainties associated with death. Some might also develop death anxiety, regardless of how far it is in the future. If it is a subject that needs further assistance from a licensed professional, one should also consider contacting a clinical hypnotherapist to become more empowered with dealing with your current circumstances.

Mark Barrus

Mark Barrus is the Director of Healthy Life Centers. I have been in the Hypnosis industry for over 20 years, and have written many articles about the efficacy and effectiveness of Hypnotherapy to overcome unwanted habits and actions. Twenty years of Case Study research and examination have helped me to inform the industry on the results and be a leader in the field. I originally worked with Dr. Richard Neves, the former head of the American Board of Hypnotherapy, training other Hypnotherapists in Advanced Smoking Cessation protocols. In February 2005, we also started Healthy Life Centers, in Orange County, CA

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