A large majority of the young adults who enter long term drug treatment suffer from anxiety. The residents often used drugs as means of reducing and managing their anxiety. Their anxiety made it difficult for them to fit in with their peers, in school, and at work. These feelings helped to mold and establish fears […]
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NEUROFEEDBACK— long term treatment’s answer to relapse 2006 Study boasts a 77% recovery rate for addicts getting Neurofeedback in Treatment It’s come to my attention, recently, that Neurofeedback has reached a “tipping point” if you will (with the general public and specifically in addiction treatment circles). This is good news to me because I have […]
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Trauma: Trauma (whether from a one-time dramatic event or from a repetitive type, stemming from childhood) causes our central nervous system (CNS) to be on high alert. Whether the event/events took place today or years ago, the brain has changed to accommodate that traumatic experience. It’s as if a robber has come into a house […]
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