Month: February 2013
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“I Don’t Know”
A colleague asked, “If I ask someone how they feel and they say, ‘I don’t know,’ and they are just beginning therapy, how should I respond?” This is a great question because this is a very common response. Why don’t patients know what they feel? They use defenses. When you hear the response, “I don’t…
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Treating Panic Attacks: How do we Understand Dizziness?
Patients can experience severe levels of anxiety in many forms. The fragile patient may experience anxiety discharged into the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and suffer dizziness, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, and problems thinking. But some patients who hyperventilate suffer panic attacks where they get dizzy too. Are they fragile?…