Question

Will hypnosis help?

Answer

Hypnotism can produce a very positive response in the short term. The result will not last if we have no understanding of the disorder and don’t know how to manage the attacks and anxiety ourselves. In conjunction with panic/anxiety management skills, hypnotism can help while we work with aspects of the disorder. If we use an audio tape of the hypnosis session during periods of high anxiety and attacks, the tape must teach us how to control the anxiety and the attacks. The control does not come from a cassette tape.

Some people use subliminal tapes in an effort to ease their symptoms. We must know what the subliminal message of the tape is and, more importantly, we should consciously know and learn how to manage anxiety and the attacks ourselves.

Question

I have heard about people becoming housebound. I am the opposite. I can’t bear to be in the house. As soon as my husband goes to work I have to get out of the house. I spend my days travelling on buses or walking around shopping centres. Is this part of the disorder?

Answer

This does happen to some people. If they have difficulty in being alone, going out and being around other people is better than staying home. It can also happen to people who were housebound, but for another reason. As people progress in their recovery, some may go through a stage where the thought of being home all day brings back too many memories of their disorder. They prefer to go out as much as they can. This stage does pass.

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First of all, there are some types of cancer for which complete surgical removal is never feasible. Cancers which start in many different parts of the body at the same time can never be cured surgically. Examples include leukaemias and myeloma (cancers of the bone marrow) and most lymphomas (cancers of the lymph nodes). The other group of cancers which cannot be cured surgically are those starting in a part of the body which is essential to life and the function of which cannot be naturally or artificially replaced. Examples include cancers of most parts of the brain, spinal cord, heart, and cancers which extensively involve the liver.

Then there are some types of cancer which can rarely be cured by surgery on its own because they almost always release cells into the bloodstream very early, before the primary cancer is big enough to be detected. Examples include some primary bone cancers (Ewing’s sarcoma, osteogenic sarcoma), small cell anaplastic (oat cell) cancer of the lung, cancer of muscle (rhabdomyosarcoma), a type of kidney cancer (Wilm’s tumour) and others. With these types of cancer you will make the best decisions if you simply take it for granted that tiny blood-borne seedlings are present, even when no actual secondary growths can be detected. Obviously these types of cancer are rarely cured simply by removal of the primary growth. Usually the best chance of cure is provided by chemotherapy combined with either surgery and/or radiotheraphy treatment.

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