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What other non-psychiatry treatments for depression are there?
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<blockquote data-quote="Blackhawk" data-source="post: 86081" data-attributes="member: 16042"><p>I had a form of biofeedback using heart rate variability and capnometry monitoring that was instrumental in helping me learn to observe my own physiological reactions to PTSD triggers.</p><p></p><p>My reactions either start in the mind where a thought, memory etc triggers response or there is an external trigger, either of which set off the amygdala starting a physiological cascade before the conscious mind has a clue it is happening. The heart rate variability and CO2 levels indicate when this kind of response is happening. Through learning the physical clues of this process, I started learning how to better recognize what my thought and external triggers were, and earlier in the process when a stress reaction was being provoked. The trick then is to be able to self calm by conscious realization that life is not actually in danger closer to onset rather than it taking me into a longer term downward spiral..</p><p></p><p>Meditation is another form of biofeedback though without machinery, and over the longer term learning to find a calm place through meditating can be transferred into non meditation circumstances. I haven;t mastered this, and am still working on all aspects of it, but bringing the self recognition of trigger phenomenon together with better ability to access calm has reduced my stress responses. For me this has been partly accomplished through this unique kind of meditation feedback and better developed brain body awareness.</p><p></p><p>Depression is a different beast though. Not sure other than finding the calm peaceful meditative comfy place-self soothing how biofeedback would apply. Perhaps if you can reprogram to access more positive thoughts and feelings through the feedback</p><p></p><p>P.S. relating this more to the OP, I didn't do this alone. One psychologist had the biofeedback expertise, another helped with some of the aspects of meditation, and a third focused on CBT. </p><p></p><p>And just a footnote: For me CBT is helpful but not the ultimate solution to all issues. While I work very well in some ways using the cognitive mind to re-pattern outlook and behaviors, there are other aspects of mind which are not solved through cognitive, but rather through feeling processes. I would have never gotten to this point regarding my PTSD issues using CBT alone. These sort of feedback based brain body and feeling connections are fundamental to me, and they are not cognitive processes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blackhawk, post: 86081, member: 16042"] I had a form of biofeedback using heart rate variability and capnometry monitoring that was instrumental in helping me learn to observe my own physiological reactions to PTSD triggers. My reactions either start in the mind where a thought, memory etc triggers response or there is an external trigger, either of which set off the amygdala starting a physiological cascade before the conscious mind has a clue it is happening. The heart rate variability and CO2 levels indicate when this kind of response is happening. Through learning the physical clues of this process, I started learning how to better recognize what my thought and external triggers were, and earlier in the process when a stress reaction was being provoked. The trick then is to be able to self calm by conscious realization that life is not actually in danger closer to onset rather than it taking me into a longer term downward spiral.. Meditation is another form of biofeedback though without machinery, and over the longer term learning to find a calm place through meditating can be transferred into non meditation circumstances. I haven;t mastered this, and am still working on all aspects of it, but bringing the self recognition of trigger phenomenon together with better ability to access calm has reduced my stress responses. For me this has been partly accomplished through this unique kind of meditation feedback and better developed brain body awareness. Depression is a different beast though. Not sure other than finding the calm peaceful meditative comfy place-self soothing how biofeedback would apply. Perhaps if you can reprogram to access more positive thoughts and feelings through the feedback P.S. relating this more to the OP, I didn't do this alone. One psychologist had the biofeedback expertise, another helped with some of the aspects of meditation, and a third focused on CBT. And just a footnote: For me CBT is helpful but not the ultimate solution to all issues. While I work very well in some ways using the cognitive mind to re-pattern outlook and behaviors, there are other aspects of mind which are not solved through cognitive, but rather through feeling processes. I would have never gotten to this point regarding my PTSD issues using CBT alone. These sort of feedback based brain body and feeling connections are fundamental to me, and they are not cognitive processes. [/QUOTE]
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