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If you have never experienced mental illness, bouts of depression or anxiety can be all too easily dismissed as someone’s bad day. But for those individuals suffering from anxiety, insomnia, crying spells, worry, memory loss, and apathy, depression is a crippling disability.

Children with anxiety problems may or may not act like anxious adults.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger, it turbocharges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system. Chronic stress can occur in response to everyday stressors that are ignored or poorly managed, as well as exposure to traumatic events. Adrenal glands react to the alert by releasing epinephrine/adrenaline, which makes the heart pump faster and the lungs work harder to flood the body with oxygen. Digestion then shuts down. This can cause significant damage and numerous symptoms.

Hypnotherapy is increasingly being recognised as an effective way to help people suffering from anxiety disorders, according to Michael McGuinness of the Mayo Hypnosis Clinic.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger. It turbo charges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger. It turbo charges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger. It turbo charges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system.

Exam time is fast approaching and for many students this is one of the most worrying times of the year. Exam anxiety can result in stress and negatively affect test performance and concentration.

Acute stress is a response to imminent danger. It turbo charges the system with powerful hormones that can damage the cardiovascular system.

Jackie Burns is a qualified clinical hypno-psychotherapist since 2006, and was based in Claremorris until she opened Body Mind Systems at the IRD Centre in Kiltimagh.