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In article <C1FGoA.FKp@unix.amherst.edu> mbfeld@unix.amherst.edu (A waste of bandwidth originating) writes:
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>Greetings, net.folks...I would like to get your opinion on something.
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>I am a 2nd year college student.  Although I am doing well, I am a bundle of
>nervousness and fear, especially when I am at college.  The worry is not always
>about anything I can explain; sometimes it seems like I can ALMOST tell what 
>I'm upset about, but not quite.  I do know about Generalized Anxiety Disorder,
>but I don't think this is that; there is SOME direction to the cascade of fears
>I am hit with (I don't want to discuss that direction here), and they have not
>been there all my life or anything like that.
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>It sounds to me like I am repressing what is really upsetting me.  (At least I
>hope so; that would mean I could deal with it once I un-repress it.)  Is
>hypnosis the way to get at this information?

	Hypnosis might be helpful,  but I came upon an interesting idea about
anxeity reading a book about psychologies based on eastern philosophy.
Essentially,  anxeity can often be the feeling of life energy that is blocked
and is not being accepted.  Rephrasing this into 'scientific' language,
anxeity comes from your adrenal glands (and the rest of your glands) speeding
up your metabolism without an obvious purpose or focus.

	As such,  I tend to feel alot of anxeity around the end of the
semester,  or when an assignment gets canceled or postponed.  My body produces
the energy that I need for a heavy workload,  but I don't really have any
work to do,  so I feel like I'm "running fast" and like I need to do something,
like I must have forgotten to do something important.  Simply realizing that
this was the expression of the energy in my system,  I found that I could
recognize it and channel it into something pleasant -- like going to the gym
and shooting some hoop or riding my bike up a big hill or dancing.

	Now maybe you do have a deeper level problem,  and hypnosis can
sometimes be good for uncovering things,  as well as putting direct
patches on things.  My own approach to helping people is to use NLP,  cognitive
or BT interventions (whatever I feel comfortable with at the time) and I
figure this is a good way to deal with the symptoms until somebody is
ready to talk about the real problem,  if there is one.  As such,  I find
directive techniques blend in really well with evocative techniques.