What causes my dizziness?
There can be many causes of dizziness (sometimes called giddiness) and before you make a decision to come to us for treatment for help please ensure that you have already sought medical advice for from your GP, neurologist etc. Often the cause of the dizziness, or vertigo is unknown, or is attributed to a virus, or an inner-ear infection, such as labyrinthitis.
Dizziness as a symptom of stress or anxiety
Sometimes dizziness can be a physiological symptom of anxiety or panic, other obvious symptoms being sweaty palms, tightness of chest etc.
Being anxious about dizziness
There is one thing that all of the people we have given treatment for dizziness through the years have had in common. They were all anxious about being dizzy, and usually worried that they may be dizzy at inappropriate times.
Let me illustrate this by example. Several years ago an orthopedic surgeon came to see me (Steve Tromans). His problem was dizziness, vertigo and swaying (not a good thing for a surgeon). He had been able to control the sensations whilst in theatre but was increasingly worried that he may not be able to for much longer as the symptoms had been getting worse. He had trailed up and down Harley Street for the previous four years and had seen a number of neurologists. He had a number of ideas about the cause of the problem, none of which had helped him.
The more he thought about it, the worse the problem became
As he sat opposite me, swaying slightly, I asked him if it was one of those problems that increased the more he thought about it. He immediately started swaying more.
So the treatment was simply to use NLP and hypnosis to direct his mind elsewhere, to get his mind out of the automated pattern of worrying about the swaying and into a pattern of just feeling calm, centered and relaxed. In all I saw him three times. After the first session the swaying decreased by about 70%, he said, after the second it had completely gone. He came back a third time so that I could help him get rid of the symptoms of IBS. That worked too.
How long will it take to treat my dizziness?
By using this combination of hypnotherapy and NLP for the treatment of dizziness, the average number of one hour sessions is 2 - 3.
