Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD
OCD is generally characterised by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions, such as cleaning, checking, counting, or hoarding. It is a potentially disabling condition that can persist throughout a person’s life. The individual who suffers from OCD becomes trapped in a pattern of repetitive thoughts and behaviors that are senseless and distressing but extremely difficult to overcome. OCD occurs in a spectrum from mild to severe, but if severe and left untreated, can destroy a person’s capacity to function at work, at school, or even in the home.
Hypnotherapy for Postnatal Depression
Postnatal depression (PND) occurs in all cultures and all socio-economic classes, and can happen to child-bearing women of all ages.
Postnatal depression is not a modern condition. Each generation calls it something different. What we call PND today may have been called a ‘nervous breakdown’ 50 years ago.
Mild, moderate, or severe symptoms can begin during pregnancy (antenatal depression), suddenly after birth, or gradually in the weeks or months following delivery. Symptoms can emerge at any time during the first year after birth, but most cases have their onset within the first 4 months.
Postnatal depression can happen after miscarriage, stillbirth, normal delivery, or Caesarean delivery. Pregnancy is the common factor. This disorder generally happens mostly after a first baby, but can occur after any other pregnancy. It has a 50 per cent chance of recurrence with a subsequent pregnancy.
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Post traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events that threatened or caused grave physical harm. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma. This stressor may involve someone’s actual death, a threat to the patient’s or someone else’s life, serious physical injury, or threat to physical or psychological integrity, overwhelming psychological defenses. In some cases it can also be from profound psychological and emotional trauma, apart from any actual physical harm. Often, however, the two are combined.
