Anxiety and Phobic response, are they the same think? when working with patient rehab, it is worth considering their fear of re-occurrence of their condition as a phobic response. If for example, the fear of a COPD incident creates the anxiety that brings on the incident, how helpful is telling them not to worry and just relax? The fight or flight response isn't selective on when it happens, inly that the event needs to seem fear/stress/anxiety producing to fire off the effects of increased heart rate, respiratory change, chemical release, change in circulation etc etc. A healthy awareness of the condition is essential so treating it as a phobic response and using NLP/hypnosis can make all the difference If you are interested in help please contact us at www.hypnotherapywestmidlands.com