Hypnotherapy for anxiety

Talking about problems is good, but taking action to make them disappear is even better.

My advice? Find a Hypnosis practitioner trained in NLP or Time Line Therapy. Anxiety is the fear of the future, usually on a specific upcoming event. The Anxiety model can eliminate that in about 5 minutes. (The principles are similar to hypnosis)

However, it all really depends on what the true presenting problem is. You mentioned that the anxiety overrides any progress you’ve made, but it may be useful to discover and let go of any limiting beliefs or negative emotions from the past that could potentially be holding you back and allowing the anxiety to resurface.

Anxiety is like a bio-feedback marker letting you know to focus on what you want, rather than what you not want. Hypnosis has many great uses and I know it can work for you. It’s worked for many people. Know that all hypnosis is self hypnosis and unconscious change can happen in an instant.

**Note: Before working with a professional hypnosis practitioner, they should first ask you to get a referral from your licensed therapist (if you are still working with them.) Generally, for legal reasons it is advisable on all parties. I’m not a lawyer, and this isn’t legal advice, so check with your lawyer if you have questions about that matter.

If you play at 100%, you will always get 100% results. You can start later, but you can’t begin living the life that you won’t want right now. Can you?

I have both had Hypnotherapy and trained as a Hypnotherapist, and am also ASD! My experience is that it can be very effective, but you have to do a lot of research into who you are using because it's an unregulated part of the industry. So check the person, where they trained, who they claim to be registered with etc, and find someone who has been practicing for 5+ years.

With all therapy though it only really works if the client is voluntarily engaged. Going because my parents forced me to come probably won't work, which ever route you take. I had a lot of personal success with Psychotherapy, but then I had more baggage problems than Heathrow!

ok. adolescents tend to be like that just before they become adults

maybe then pretending that you give up and just do not want him to be alone, you could suggest that he joins this forum to make some autistic friends, maybe seeing how the reality looks like will make him to reconsider

We've tried talking to him about what he wants to do as an adult but his answer is "I don't need to do anything coz I've got you" 

It's not a proper college it's called a supported internship but the first year is class based to improve maths and English skills then he gets supported in the workplace for 2 years.

But the difficulty getting him to understand that he does need to get a job at some point as we're not always going to be around for him and that he need things like this to help him learn how to support himself. 

Try to get him into talk about his future as an adult, what are his plans, and if he has plans or desires or imagined perfect life, that would require from him to go to college, than you can touch that topic, 

Anyway college or no college, the biggest difficulty for me was getting a job, maybe his plans would benefit if he started an apprenticeship instead of college?

college and further education is easily continued in adulthood, so there is no rush now, 

I did not know what to do and did go to uni and dropped out when I found out, that courtse wasn't really for me

Your son would have to be willing in the first place, but yes, I have found it helpful in the past. Because it by-passes the conscious brain I think.

To add: I had a dentist fill a cavity and it should've probably been a root canal. He was a new dentist due to a move and I went to 3 appointments. After the last check up I decided I will never go back to him. He's all over the place, not precise, but sloppy. His assistant was barely attentive. Our conversations felt like he kept missing what I was trying to say. 

Never going back. I'm sure most people don't mind. But that kind of inattention to detail is never something I can trust. I should've refused to have him fill it after the first visit. But we are expected if not programmed to just go along with a thing. Don't doubt that there is a good reason. He might not be able to articulate it. 

It sounds like you want something to help alter his perspective, which can help with the internal logic he is using to conclude a trajectory of outcome based on his beliefs. Hypnotherapy can be good for stopping addictions. Just plain old fashioned talking through beliefs with a therapist could benefit if it's something he'd like to do. There may be very grounded reasons why there are struggles. I prefer to do certain things based on who's involved as well. 

Now if he needs to learn principles and rules for life, that's another matter. I bought my adult son some cleverly designed School of Life books and just learning about human things all humans deal with is useful. One needs exposure and opportunity. 

Anxiety, on the other hand can be a physical response to a hyper-speed mind making hyper-speed connexions and spiralling out of control. It is unique to Autism, this mind of ours is our greatest strength but holds it's own set of limitations. We have to learn to mind our mind :) The only thing I've found to help is the odd occasional Anti-Anxiety drug for a moment when it's all too much. I don't clean out a bottle per year, they're an emergency item because this is my brain and that extreme of intense spiralling is unhealthy.