A woman recently asked if I ever had dealt with emetophobia. I did not know it was extreme fear of vomiting. Her symptoms ranged from rapid breathing, to the sweats, nervousness, panic and a desire to run. They sounded like a traditional panic and anxiety attack, just a different trigger.
A panic and anxiety trigger often is different for each person.
A drop in blood sugar level sets off panic and anxiety, the brain’s way of saying it is functioning from a primitive, emotional level rather than its normal higher level. This creates symptoms that will generate an adrenaline rush, causing the negative panic and anxiety. This condition further depletes the body of the sugar it needs.
Typically, the client has made a mistake. The sub-conscious has linked to what the person was doing at the time to a feeling that was new, severe and uncomfortable.
The person’s mistake is that he does not accept that this was just a feeling. Instead, he has attached this misunderstood feeling to the activity he was doing when the attack hit.
Link Is Not Legitimate
To illustrate: As a person enters a freeway on-ramp, he suffers a low blood sugar reaction, a panic attack. This never has happened, and now he will forever associate driving up the on-ramp with his attack.
One who tries to deal with it always is unsuccessful. You can’t treat it if you don’t understand it.
The solution, as I have written before, is to consume small amounts of protein every two hours and employ desensitization under hypnosis to eliminate the panic and anxiety.
The client I mentioned above was not an easy one. Her trauma was severe. She still suffers difficulties. When she was eight years old, her parents sat her down, told her they were divorcing and she would live with her mother. The shock of the divorce was so great she instantly felt that she wanted to vomit. She did not. But the shock depleted her blood sugar level. She had a panic attack. At eight, she had no defenses. She carried this predicament into her adult life, and it still haunts her.
Remember the 10-and-90 Formula
Of the brainpower we use, 10 percent is our conscious mind, 90 percent our subconscious. Even though we may consciously want to make a change, 10 percent vs. 90 is going to have a difficult time. The issue is unlikely to go away. When you talk to the 90 percent, the sub-conscious there is a great chance the problem will be resolved.
The subconscious never determines what is bad or good, false or real, wrong or right. Like a hard drive, it stores the information given it. The data consists of everything we ever have seen, heard, tasted, experienced. As you grow, you train your sub-conscious to give you what you want when you want it.
For my client, the divorce shock was so strong that the desire to vomit became her standard response to any stress.
Naturally, this left her unhappy and eating less than she should have for fear of throwing up. She hardly ever did.
Our behaviors are developed between birth and the age of 12.
Three factors helped my client recover within weeks:
- Having her review the initial trauma from the age of eight from a detached third-party perspective, like watching a movie, while under hypnosis,
- Her new protein diet and
- Further hypnotic desensitization.
Do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321, or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net
