Stress = panicked flailing trying to keep your head above water. 
Overwhelm = a gentle descent, knowing you’re drowning, but having no ability to stop it. 

Overwhelm:  

• Indecision and thought paralysis:  The more desperate your need to be doing something, the more frozen you become. 

• A loss of perspective and catastrophising:  One situation creates an expectation of a whole cascade of disasters. 

• When spilling a drink or mislaying the remote control feels like the entire world is coming to an end.  Even when you know full well that this is an overreaction, that the lost sock is not the end of civilisation as we know it, the feelings and anguish remain. 

Feeling stressed vs Suffering from Stress 

Stress is a natural part of life, something we all experience during tough or challenging times.  Common causes are work pressures, life changes, responsibilities, health issues.  Learning beneficial coping strategies (self-hypnosis, relaxation/breathing techniques, meditation, mindfulness) can be of immeasurable help. 

Those who suffer from stress, however, find that the effects far outlast the circumstances. When the situation improves but the stress levels remain high is when one-on-one therapy is the better option. 

Often though, a person suffering overwhelm has no known triggering event; life should be good – home, work, family, friends, health – this just intensifies the overwhelm. It feels unjustified. It heightens the feelings of guilt. It makes you feel even more like you ‘shouldn’t’ feel that way, which only submerges you further. 

And those effects can swing from  

• restlessness to lethargy,  

• from brain fog to rampant or obsessive thoughts,  

• a sense of urgency but also apathy.  

It is exhausting, creating a level of fatigue beyond mere tiredness. The frustration and emotional toll often lead to physical effects –  

• unaccountable pains,  

• stomach/bowel issues,  

• headaches,  

• dizziness and  

• compromises the immune system. 

When Self-Help Techniques Don’t Work 

When you are totally burnt-out, have bone-deep weariness, how can you implement self-help techniques when any level of self-care is just too demanding?   

If mindfulness or meditation strategies are no longer providing sustained relief, or the overwhelm is so incapacitating that you don’t have the energy, motivation, or mental focus to apply the coping techniques – then a different approach is required. 

Rather than ways to control or relieve the effects, a short course of Curative Hypnotherapy (LCH) to correct the root causes of these reactions may be the best course of action.  

This gentle therapy looks beyond what you are experiencing and what you have undergone – so treatment won’t focus on the symptoms or past traumas – instead, it seeks to change the reasons why you have reacted that way. Thus, not just freeing you of the symptoms, but also freeing you of similar reactions in the future.  

The aim of LCH treatment is to provide you with the resources and abilities to deal with situations more easily, so that challenges become molehills rather than mountains and allowing you to regain the control, calmness, clarity of mind and contentment you deserve. 

What Next?

• For details of FEES and booking an appointment with Helen Lesser.
• Have a question? – Call or Text – 07380635523 / email / Chat
• Qualifications and experience – About Helen Lesser

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