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Re: Neurofeedback for severe depression?

Posted by a good friend on June 16, 2005, at 2:55:09

In reply to Re: Neurofeedback for severe depression?, posted by Spector on June 16, 2005, at 1:33:37

Oh, ok. If it's the best option, then it's the best option. And you are correct in that I have not seen the latest studies or stats on this technique.
Absolutely it could help you! It's very much like Hemisync (Monroe Institute) or Sudarshan Kriya (www.artofliving.org), in that it whips the brain back into shape through regaining balance between the Alpha, Beta, Theta, and Delta waves associated with various brain states.
Hemisynce does this through the auditory channel, Neurofeedback does this mainly through visual (using videogames), and Kriya breathing does this through rhythmic breath. Go ahead and check out the studies done with depression and Sudarshan Kriya before you make a final choice. There have been a bunch of clinical studies that show fantastic results. It is a VERY powerful technique.
I wish you the very best. Keep going. Look at every option. You will get better.


> Oh God, I hope you're wrong. Could you please be wrong?
>
> You're basing your feeling on your experience, your gut feeling and a decade in this world, which I think is quite valid. But you have not read any statistics or studies that have indicated that it is less effective with severe depression, correct?
>
> Also, did you stop after 12 or 14 sessions because you were not seeing a difference or enough of a difference to justify going on? I've been told that you will normally know within 5 to 10 sessions if you are going to get benefit.
>
> Yes, yes, my condition is quite efficiently designed to trick me into thinking that it will never go away. On the other hand, this depression has lasted 2-1/2 years unrelentingly. As I wrote in my initial post, it is the result of being given an amphetamine which triggered a bipolar relapse after 14 years of complete remission. The four depressions I had when I was younger were just as severe but my body was able to correct itself within 4 to 5 months. (No drugs helped then as none have helped this time -- a total of 19.) Most likely because it was drug induced, my body has not been able to do that this time. So, while I continue to somehow somewhere believe that I am going to return to life, 2-1/2 years feels like half of forever. And you clearly know that a week of severe depression -- hell, a day, an hour -- is endless.
>
> At this moment, no better option is presenting itself, so to answer your question, I am giving up no other therapeutic choice.
>
> Thanks very much for responding. But still please be wrong. At least about me. Ok?
>
> Nomi Spector


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