Showing posts with label social anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social anxiety. Show all posts

Friday, July 14, 2023

(Event) Mental Health Webinar: Managing Social Anxiety

 


Just gave a mental health promotion talk on how to manage social anxiety. 

I shared my doctoral study findings regarding the prevalence of anxiety issues and subclinical mental health concerns surrounding the topic of anxiety, which is also the focus of my PhD thesis. 

At the end of the workshop, the participants gave positive reviews about the talk. The majority of them found the topic helpful, and I heard that some of them hope for more topics related to hypnotherapy, which is my area of expertise. 

I also received feedback that my personal experience of having social anxiety symptoms also helped them to relate to these symptoms better. This really made my day, as I hope more people can start to become aware of their body-mind symptoms, which could be the first step toward healing. 



I would like to thank the clinical psychologist trainees here and the master's students in clinical psychology from USM-UPSI for initiating this project and organizing the talk. I hope more people become aware of the benefits of hypnotherapy in managing anxiety symptoms.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

[Case Study] Social Anxiety Symptoms Treatment Malaysia - SY Case

 



Name: SY

Job Title: Architect Assistant

Date: September, 2020

 

Before came for Clinical Hypnotherapy session, I always felt nervous and afraid when talk to a person or a group of friends. I often experienced the thought of other people trying to harm me, hence when talking to other people my voice became shaky and tend to talk less with others. Even when texting with my friends using social media like Whatapps and Instagram, my fingers tend to tremble with fear and afraid of sending messages to them. Besides that, I am very emotional and tends to become depressed or angry easily over small matters, even my younger brother who used to be close with me, commented that it is difficult to communicate with me and felt distant from me. I had been experiencing these issues for the past 4 years. During presentation in my college, I would experience palpitation and feel of vomiting when presenting to a crowd of people. 

 

After graduated on 2018 and started work, I unable to focus and perform well in my new work, when faced problems I tend to be emotional instead of looking for solution or consult my manager. However, after undergo Hypnotherapy session for only 2 months (3 sessions), I am able to talk well with my friends or any strangers and felt more confident than before. Furthermore, I am able to work efficient and rational and willing to find solution for problems encountered during work instead of being emotional about it. At the same time, my family would call me more often than usual and enjoy having a conversation with me. My sleep quality has improved tremendously and feels more energetic in performing my daily routines. I think Hypnotherapy is effective for me as it helps me to express my emotions in a clearer view and understand more about myself, even the small matters from the past that we overlook may affect us now and Hypnotherapy is useful in helping us face these matters that had been stored inside our unconscious thought. 

 

Remark: Our client's information will be kept strictly confidential all the time. All reviews and photos have been acknowledged and provided by past and current clients of Hiro Koo.

Sunday, January 20, 2019

[Testimonial] Child Anxiety Symptoms Treatment Malaysia - Low JS Case



Name: Low JS

Age: 4
Town: Seremban
Intervention: Sleep Talk Process, Clinical Neurofeedback, Nutritional Consultation

JS has developed the issue of anxiety, poor socializing and logical thinking skills before 4 years old. We decided to bring him for the neurofeedback training in order to tackle such issues. We are very pleased and happy about that JS’s condition has shown improvement throughout the training sessions. For an instance, JS has become calmer and his fear of loud noise such as thunderstorm was reduced significantly after participating for 30 sessions of neurofeedback training. Moreover, the diet control and the nutritional suggestions provided by the professional nutritional consultant in the centre also accounted for JS’s improvement throughout the therapy periods.

Nowadays, JS is capable to make friends and get along well with his peers. Besides, he has become more cheerful than before. Nonetheless, there is still space for the improvement on his social skills as well as his executive functioning capability. As for now, we are glad to see the improvement on JS’s condition and we do believe in the effectiveness of neurofeedback as well as nutritional control in treating the anxiety symptoms.



Tuesday, February 2, 2016

马来西亚临床催眠师手记‬-社交恐惧症状


这案子让我印象深刻,当事人因为社交恐惧症状找上我。

他因为这个问题导致无法在大家面前演讲,甚至还因为经常在外面对人群时严重脸红而到皮肤科进行治疗。

我运用回溯法让他问题的根源浮出水面;原来是童年阴影造成他害怕成为别人的焦点。于是我运用催眠疗法把那段回忆进行更新,目的也是为了更新记忆里那未处理的阴影。或许很多时候我们知道问题的根源,但如果没有去正视和更新那段我们尘封的记忆,阴影会如鬼魅般一直纠缠和影响我们的生活。

但,去正视它谈而容易呢?
别自己轻易的去尝试接触这段导致你阴影的回忆,那可能会引起恶梦连连或者歇斯底里症状发生。这就是为什么我需要小心的运用许多心理治疗和催眠技巧来处理这类问题。


一般分类

1、一般社交恐惧症
一般社交恐怖症,在任何地方,任何情境中,都会害怕自己成了别人注意的中心;总感觉周围每个人都在看着自己,观察自己的每个小动作;害怕被介绍给陌生人,甚至害怕在公共场所进餐、喝饮料;尽可能回避去商场和进餐馆;从不敢和老板、同事或任何人进行争论,捍卫自己的权利。
2、特殊社交恐惧症
表现为对某些特殊的情境或场合特别恐惧。比如,害怕当众发言,当众表演。尽管如此,在别的社交场合,却并不感到恐怖。推销员、演员、教师、音乐演奏家,等等,经常都会有特殊社交恐怖症。他们在与别人的一般交往中,并没有什么异常,可是当他们需要上台表演,或者当众演讲时,他们会感到极度的恐惧,常常变得结结巴巴,甚至楞在当场。   
这两类社交恐怖症都有类似的躯体症状:口干、出汗、心跳剧烈、想上厕所。周围的人可能会看到的症状有:红脸、口吃结巴、轻微战抖。有时候,患者发现自己呼吸急促,手脚冰凉。结果是,患者会进入惊恐状态。

详细分类

社交恐怖又可细分为许多种,其中最常见的有以下几种。
社交恐惧症社交恐惧症图册
1、赤面恐惧
一般人在众人面前时,经常会由于害羞或不好意思而脸红,但赤面恐惧患者却对此过度焦虑,感到在人前脸红是十分羞耻的事,最后由于症状固着下来,则非常畏惧到众人面前。
患者一直努力掩饰自己的赤面,尽量不被人觉察,并因此十分苦恼。患者惧怕到众人面前,比如,在乘公共车时,总感到自己处在众人注视之下,终于连公共车也不敢乘。
2、视线恐惧
患者主诉与别人见面时不能正视对方,自己的视线与对方的视线相遇就感到非常难堪,以至于眼睛不知看哪儿才好。患者一味注意视线的事情,并急于强迫自己稳定下来,但往往事与愿违,终于不能集中注意力与对方交谈,谈话前言不搭后语,而且往往失去常态。
有的视线恐惧患者与许多人同在一个房间时,主诉不能注意自己对面的人,而强迫得注意旁边其他人的视线,或认为自己的视线朝向旁边的人而使其感到不快。结果患者的精力无法集中于对面的人。有的学生患者在上课时,总是不能自已的去注意自己旁边的同学,或总感到旁边的同学在注意自己,结果影响了上课,并给自己带来无比的痛苦。
3、表情恐惧
患者总担心自己的面部表情会引起别人的反感,或被人看不起,对此慌恐不安。表情恐惧多与眼神有关。患者认为自己眼神令其他人生畏,或认为自己的眼神毫无光彩等。
4、异性恐惧
主要症状与前几种情况大致相同,只是患者在与异性或者自己领导上级接触时,症状尤其严重,感到极大的压迫感,不知所措,甚至连话也说不出来。与自己熟识的同性及一般同事交往则不存在多大问题。
5、口吃恐惧
口吃恐惧可归类于社交恐惧的一种。患者本人独自朗读时,没有什么异常,但到别人面前时,谈话就难以进行,或开始发音障碍或才说到一半儿,就说不下去了,患者对此忧心忡忡,因不能顺利地与人交谈而感到自己是个残缺的人,终于因此而非常苦恼。

社交恐惧症 - 诊断标准

A、在不熟悉的人们面前或被他人注意或观察时(可能如此),害怕自己可能会作出一些使人难堪的行为或表现出焦虑症状。
B、处于所害怕的社交场合,几乎不可避免地产生焦虑,并可能出现仅限于此情境的惊恐发作。
C、患者认知到这种害怕是不合理的或过度的。
D、患者一般都设法避免这种情景,否则便以极度的焦虑或痛苦忍受着。
E、这种对恐惧情景的避免、焦虑的期待、或害怕反应,显著地干扰个人的生活、工作或社交,或者对于患有恐惧症感到的精神痛苦。
F、如患者年龄小于18岁,应至少6个月病程。
G、这种害怕或回避不是由于某种物质或一般性躯体状况所致的直接生理性反应,并排除其他精神障碍而引起的焦虑或恐惧性回避。
H、如存在某种一般躯体情况或其他精神障碍,那么他的害怕也与之无关,例如不是害怕自己的口吃、帕金森病的震颤、或神经性厌食或贪食症的异常进食行为。


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