Being enclosed

When you find youself in a place and get upset, palpations or uneasy about being there. One of the places is lifts, many people avoid them as they can have a panic about them. Why? well they have an anxiety condition called Claustrophobia.

They often do not tell others about it for fear of being ridiucled and micky taken out of them.

The condition can impact on lives and stop some, from getting a job that involves a lift journey each day.

One such person was a young man that came to me with Anxiety issues.

I was going through the list of things that on his form and I always ask my clients which issue they need to deal with first.

He decided that it was lifts and his dread of small spaces, that had started in childhood, from one of his life issues and his bad parents way of punishing him for 'naughty' behaviour.

So we did some work on this, using a technique I have adapted for my own style of working which is direct.

After the fourth session, he said 'yesterday I went to a large store and guess what, I took the lift', so I said 'and what happened?' he replied 'I got in with my partner, her face was in that place, here we go, but it soon changed , as I managed it, no sweating, no wanting pass out!"

I can say that after a further two sessions, his smoking diminished, his anger stopped and his partner was very thankful for him booking his appointments.