I used to commute into London every weekday, travelling in on a packed 12-carriage train. I would follow the crowds of people flooding off the train, out into the streets or down into the underground. I would watch the people as they scurried on to their places of work, each one an individual, each one with their own personality, their own goals in life, their own problems too.
I think back to those days and now wonder: How many of those people suffer from anxiety?
So I looked up the statistics. A packed 12-carriage train can take about 1750 passengers. Then I checked the rates of anxiety in the UK. And finally, I calculated that on just one of the many trains travelling into London each day:
- 350 people will have felt anxious most or all of the time in the last two weeks
- 105 people are suffering from diagnosable generalised anxiety disorder
- 70 people have had a trauma in their lives sufficient to give them PTSD
And that is just one one train. I then went on to think of all the other trains travelling into London or any other city in the world, or all the people in my town, or in the country. There are so many people who have anxiety that impacts their lives, so many people whose lives could be changed for the better if only they could get it under control.
… And they could get their anxiety under control …
They could work to getting a normal life back again. There are many people who have managed to overcome their anxiety and feel normal again. And yet, so many of them either don’t realise they can do something about it, or they give up at the first hurdle.
Hypnotherapy is just one of the methods they could use to help them on the path back to normality. It is not the only thing they could use – they could try medication, other forms of talking therapy or there are a lot of things they can do for themselves like improving their diet or doing more exercise.
You are welcome to explore any of these means of returning your life to normal. However, if you want to give hypnotherapy a try, you can Contact Me and I would be pleased to talk to you about it.
References
Anxiety Statistics
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/mental-health-facts-and-statistics/
https://www.priorygroup.com/mental-health/anxiety-treatment/anxiety-statistics
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