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You might find something useful for starts in the book,Worry by Edward Hallowell, MD.

Hmmm . . . here's my best guess of where it comes from and how it might fit into your strategy for dealing with it. Your autonomic nervous system has the job of controlling how revved up your nervous system is in any given situation. To get a good night's sleep, things need to be running pretty slow...

What you describe sounds a lot like the discomfort that occurs in most people when an expected series of events is not completed. A simple example of the "expected-series-not-completed" scenario, would be sitting at an intersection and having the traffic light go from green to yellow and t...

Feeling empty inside as you describe is most often associated with thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are very challenging to live with and to work your way through. It is important that you take this seriously. One approach that you might want to check out Dialectical Behavior Therapy . While i...

A simple self-hypnosis you might start with is a 4-3-2-1 which goes as follows: focus your eyes on a point directly in front of you notice four physical sensations one at a time, for example. “I am aware of my feet on the floor” ( slow breath in and out ) “I am aware of the chair supporting my thigh...

There are several that have been useful for me depending on what my goal is at the time.

What are you looking to achieve through self-hypnosis?

What a dilemma, when something that has the potential to feel so good feels terrible it can get to be a lose-lose! Concluding that your self is basically bad is a double whammy. It is an awful place to be AND it is easily taken as "proof" that you can't dig out of the hole you are in. If y...

I’m that case it is often helpful to focus on coming back to the practice when you slip and telling yourself that every time you come back, your self-discipline gets stronger.

It’s like training a puppy. You keep bringing your focus back, kindly, lovingly.

Baby steps. Over and over.

What would be an example of something that you want to do for yourself, but believe that you can't?

You might find some useful things in one of the old, classic approaches to stress by people such as Herbert Benson or Jon Kabat-Zinn.

The goal is to find something simple that you can and will do. Usually that means that it makes sense to you and feels good when you do it..

It has been my experience that the best interventions are built more around using what the client brings to the process and less around what I may have decided I am going to do beforehand. However, when a therapist is skilled and experienced enough to make good decisions as to what, when, and how to...

Hi Ivan, Wow! There are .so many parts to your situation that it must be hard to know where to start. Sometimes just doing something can have a positive effect, even if what you try doesn't "work", as the inertia gets altered. Even a very small thing can alter the balance enough for you to...