Balance your brain

This helps many mental health conditions, lowers anxiety, helps with impulse control and " emotional regulation", helps you think, learn and listen better.

 

... hello flutterby. thank you for posting. how are you today?

 

Too Bad psychiatrists dont know about this....for now

 

Brain Gym for many mental health conditions.....what the psychiatrists don't know

 

This alsO helped me with body dysmorphic issues but not curative because i found out about it way too late ie in adulthood. This is why childhood mental functioning issues from abuse, injury etc must be treated early while the brain is still growing.

 

... thanks for the information, flutterby!

 

Why aren't the "mentally ill" being shown these simple techniques? I had to put the pieces together myself, in adulthood when it was too late for it to work entirely ( still very helpful for me tho.). No therapist or psychiatrist that i hav ever seen over the years mentioned the broken physiology ( brain hemisphere dysfunction) involved in mental illness ( and trauma)

These techniques are most often marketed as learnng techniques and are Therefore, totally overlooked by people suffering mental illness.

 

Brain Gym for mental llness........who knew

 

Largely because it's pseudoscience and not evidence based. There are a bazillion different types of therapy with varying amounts of scientific support. Clinicians will recommend the ones that have the most evidence first.

 

Yeah while the scientists try to make reality fit their rulers, those who could benefit languish.

 

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http://www.healingpathwaysmedical.com/docs/Laterality_of_Brain.pdf

Brain laterality
Confused "dominance"


Interesting. Dont agree with all of it but worth the read.

"Mixed dominance can be found at the root of many problems such as dyslexia, emotionality, slow thinking, poor judgment, poor sense of time, distractibility, poor coordination and control of body parts, academic shortfalls, stuttering, bad judge of distance, and a host of other inefficiencies of the brain."

 

Muller43 theorized that borderline personality disorder may be the result of deficient hemispheric in- tegration. Other theorists have speculated that a disso- ciation of hemispheric function may be present in alex- ithymia44 and PTSD.45,46"

 

neuro.psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/NP/3859/298.pdf

 

www.nytimes.com/1999/01/19/science/new-theories-of-depression-focus-on-brain-s-two-sides.html

Article implicates lack of normal left/ right brain hemisphere interplay in Manic Depression

 

In normal people, the switch allows either the left or right hemisphere to be dominant during different mental tasks, with the two sides constantly taking turns. In people with manic depression, one hemisphere becomes locked into a dominant position in periods of depression while the other hemisphere is locked at times of mania. In a truly bizarre finding, Dr. Pettigrew reported that the placement of ice water into one ear seems to unstick the switch."

 

... fascinating stuff. how are you today, flutterby? handling the heat okay?

 

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