Posted by chujoe on May 25, 2010, at 8:35:31
In reply to Re: After 3 wks - 5 Neurofeedback treatments » janejane, posted by StillHopefull on May 21, 2010, at 19:31:35
I find that supplements -- vit D, fish oil -- seem to help my medications work more effectively. I suppose they might also help one's "natural" or "normal" brain chemistry function more efficiently. (I don't like to use those words I put in quotes because I think it is "natural" in an evolutionary sense for human beings to put all kinds of things into their bodies that affect their moods -- some benign, some dangerous.)
Also, regarding neurofeedback & placebo effect. I'm convinced that being cared for directly and personally can have a powerful healing effect. I don't know the neurofeedback procedure or the person you're seeing, but it could be that just having someone take a particular interest in you has been helpful. Before there were psych drugs, even before there was psychaitry, people recovered from depression & many other forms of madness simply by being taken care of, treated with respect. (Of course, many others didn't improve with simple care & many others never got care of any kind.) Last year when I was in the grip of a wildly activated bout of anxiety / depression, it took me almost six weeks to get in to see the one psychiatrist at our small town hospital, but after he spent an hour with me, even before I filled the prescription he'd given me, I felt a huge lift in my mood. Placebo? Maybe, if that's what you want to call it. But there is literature describing how even back ward schizophrenics improve when therapists listen to their stories and try to piece together their meanings. [See Susan Baur, "The Dinosaur Man" -- Harper Collins 1991.]
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