Generalised Anxiety Disorder

Generalised Anxiety Disorder is probably the most commonly
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Understanding the Roots

🧠 What Is GAD?

GAD is persistent and excessive anxiety about a wide range of situations — not just one specific trigger.

🧩 Causes of GAD

1. Repressed Emotion

A single overwhelming childhood experience gets locked away in the subconscious.

Too intense to process at the time
Forgotten, but stored for “future protection”
Triggered later in life, often by a similar-feeling event
Once released, the anxiety attaches to your current situation

🧨 “Emotions repressed in the past become the anxiety of the present.”

2. Compound Trauma

Repeated negative messages during childhood (e.g. “You’re not good enough”)
Becomes internalised belief
Leads to chronic worry and low self-esteem
May present as free-floating or generalised anxiety

🌀 How Anxiety Morphs Over Time

A real case study:

Panic attack on a plane
Avoided flying
Then anxiety spread to trains → buses → small spaces → social settings → health worries
Result: GAD

Anxiety will always find something to attach to if the underlying emotion is unresolved.

🔧 Treatment Options

🔍 Hypnoanalysis

Helps identify and release the original repression
Brings subconscious emotion to light
Allows for resolution and emotional freedom

🧠 BWRT (BrainWorking Recursive Therapy)

Changes emotional response to triggers
Rewires the subconscious pattern
Fast, structured, and effective

✅ Conclusion

Without intervention, GAD can last indefinitely.
But with the right approach, it’s entirely treatable.

You’re not broken — you’re just running on old emotional code.

[Title]: Why Generalised Anxiety Disorder Happens

🧠 Repressed Emotion → (arrow) 🔁 Subconscious Storage → (arrow) ⚠️ Triggered Later
🪨 Compound Trauma → (arrow) 🔁 Internal Beliefs → (arrow) 😰 Chronic Worry

🔁 Anxiety Morphing Timeline:
Plane Panic → Travel Anxiety → Small Spaces → Social Anxiety → Health Fears

🧯 Treatment Paths
→ 🔍 Hypnoanalysis (Find Root)
→ 🔄 BWRT (Change Reaction)

Firstly, Hypnoanalysis, as seen in the client study above. Analysis allowed the opportunity to find the originating trigger to all the problems and remove it. Once repression is exposed and dealt with usually the client returns to full health over the following weeks and months. This can take between 6 and 12 sessions to complete. For more information on Hypnoanalysis click here.

Secondly, BWRT. A specific protocol for working with GAD has been created. This is where we look at all the triggers and work at them one by one. Because many triggers overlap a list of 10 might easily fall to just 4 or 5 when worked through. Depending on the amount of triggers GAD can usually be treated in 2-4 sessions. For more information on BWRT click here

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