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Q - I was diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder at age sixteen. Only recently did I find a combination of medications that works for me. Will this technique help me with my disorder and could I undergo treatment while on medication or should I be off medication while doing it? Also, I have a friend who suffers from anxiety, depression and PTSD. Apparently he is part of 10% of the population who cannot properly metabolize antidepressants. Would he be eligible for treatment as well? He is currently considering taking cortisol blockers that are only in the early stages of being tested on patients.
A - Although neurotherapeutic treatment generally takes longer for clients on medication, treatment can proceed while medicated. Usually our clients are able to eliminate medication or at least markedly reduce the amounts required for stabilization. We treat many forms of depression including the various forms of bi-polar. Regarding your friend, we routinely see clients who have been unsuccessfully treated by many practitioners or with many combinations of drugs. As you might know, medicating trauma is not a viable long term solution to the problem for it simply masks the traumatic emotional content. neurotherapy releases the brain activity associated with the trauma after the brain's stress tolerance functions have been normalized. After having treated many clients with PTSD including combat veterans, it has become apparent that these people have a condition that compromises their stress coping capability. There is some controversy regarding whether this inefficiency predates the PTSD or whether the inefficiency is caused by the emotional trauma. In any event, this condition is always found in clients with PTSD. It is likely that your friend also has a neurological predisposition to depressed mood states. After experiencing the trauma the depressed mood state manifested and the poor stress tolerance resulted in severe anxiety. The treatment of this condition usually involves normalizing the brain's stress coping area as well as the areas associated with the trauma and predisposition to depression. The first step, of course, is to do a brain assessment to determine the exact nature and location of the brain inefficiencies. |
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