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Past Reality Integration <\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Anxiety and Panic Attacks<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Past Reality Integration (PRI) teaches you to live life more and more 'defense-free'. Anxiety and panic, examples of defense mechanisms, thus lose their function and disappear. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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We are afraid of what has already happened<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n

It is very unpleasant to feel that your life is controlled by anxiety. PRI shows that although anxiety seems to be about the here and now, that is not true. <\/p>\n

Anxiety has a specific function. The reason you become afraid in situations that are not dangerous is that your brain distracts your attention from a deeper, painful feeling that arose much earlier in your life. In the period when you were still a small, dependent child who could not take care of himself. <\/p>\n

In situations that somehow resemble what you once experienced and what felt life-threatening at the time, your anxiety becomes active and makes you believe that you are in danger now.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Different forms of anxiety<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n

You may generally feel anxious often. It may also be that your anxiety is more focused, such as fear of social contact, places where many people come, such as (public) transport, public places (such as parking spaces and market squares) or enclosed spaces (such as shops and cinemas). <\/p>\n

Another form of anxiety is specific phobias such as for blood, natural phenomena (for example, thunderstorms, heights, water), injections or injuries, certain animals (for example, spiders or dogs), elevators, driving or flying.<\/p>\n

Anxiety and panic often go hand in hand with certain clear physical reactions (such as, among other things, diarrhea, abdominal pain, sweating, palpitations, trembling, hyperventilation, dizziness or nausea).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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