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When a child is diagnosed with a brain tumor or brain cancer, the initial impact that news has on the family is simply overwhelming. This is a crucial time for the patient, parents, and families, as well as friends. Time is often of the essence; quick decisions and fast actions are typically required, and, in a split second, lives are changed forever.Thus begins a journey down a very long and difficult road. Where do parents go for information? Who do they turn to for support? How will they know what’s best for their child? It’s imperative that these families have resources available to them to assist them in making the critical decisions that they now face.Thankfully, there are a number of exceptional family support and outreach programs sponsored by nonprofit organizations focusing on children’s brain tumors and brain cancer. These programs provide valuable resources for education, assistance, and support. While there are many reasons for parents of children with brain tumors to connect with a support group, three of the primary reasons are discussed below.EducationOne of the first questions asked by parents of children newly diagnosed with brain tumors and brain cancer is “What does this mean for my child?”
Family support and outreach programs can answer this and countless other questions by providing resources for general awareness of the disease, treatment options, and even facilities equipped to provide the best treatments available. Support programs can also help families stay abreast of the latest research that’s being done with regard to treatments, survivorship, and long-term effects for the survivors of this deadly disease.AssistanceAssistance for families taking this difficult journey can come in a variety of forms. It may involve locating the right doctors and facilities to care for their child, or perhaps, working through the maze of insurance forms and red tape. Researching options for financial aid, or finding local resources for supplies or services that might be needed for the child’s care and recovery are also ways in which these support groups can offer help to these families.In addition to the assistance provided to individual families, these nonprofit organizations work tirelessly on promoting and servicing the overall mission – finding better treatments for kids suffering from brain tumors and brain cancer, and improving the quality of life for survivors.SupportAbove all else, the parents and loved ones of these kids need emotional support. They need to belong to a community of people who are traveling the same, long road that they find themselves on. They need to know that they are not alone in their journey.The emotional support that is given so freely in these family outreach programs cannot be found anywhere outside these unique groups of fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers. Who can better understand the grief a mother feels when she learns that her instincts about her child’s health were right? Or the sorrow that consumes a father when he finally allows himself to cry, alone in the shower? And who better to share the joy when a family transitions to survivorship?These family support groups offer not only support for parents and extended families but for the patients, as well. Understanding the toll that this dreadful journey takes on all, most support groups sponsor a variety of conferences, camps, and other events throughout the year as a respite to the families. These events provide opportunities to connect with others in this unique community, while also gaining insight into educational and vocational opportunities.Being very much aware of the needs of bereaved families, and families of survivors, as well, there are also support groups that are geared specifically to their needs. Some of these groups have mentors; parents who have stood in the same shoes, who work with families in a number of ways as they move through the difficult transitions.Education. Assistance. Support. Connecting with the right support group is essential for parents and families facing this difficult journey. Parents, you are not alone. Help is out there, waiting for your call.
Real happiness is spiritual, it’s an inside job. This being so, why don’t we experience happiness on an ongoing daily basis? To answer this let us explore what may be blocking our natural happiness and how we can rectify such. Let us examine how religious dogma, literal interpretation of scriptures and their resultant mind-sets, may have confused, mislead or ill-served us in life.Baptismal ContractAwakening out of ” formal religion” conditioning reveals that we were living a religious / baptismal contract not of our own choosing or signing. And, strangely, but for the subtly imposed fear clause, this water over the head “contract” could have been opted out of at any time. Misguided, we lived the fear, delusion, and accepted domination; we relinquished our own Christ-within determination and became “literal” prisoners of the institutional “arrangements”. Even though we sensed “our church” were holding back on the essence of the Jesus-intended Way to soul liberation, we conformed to Institutional liberalism and its democracy premised on collective ignorance maintained through fear-instilling dogmas. The reality of course is, that we rely solely on direct experiential contact with our already present inner Christ nature. In other words, we each possess a cosmically-designed constitution (brain, nervous system/spiritual mechanisms) drawn up by the Almighty and managed by evolution for the sole purpose of “saving” each soul through our own Christ “within” consciousness.As spirit beings we’re each encoded to finding or coming upon this saving Truth through inward endeavor. We’re each given the tools (endocrine or glandular system / chakras) to actualize Truth: become Self or Christ-Realized experientially now, in consciousness, and not some time in the future.Sense-Based HappinessMany seem not to realize that by constantly (unwittingly) seeking and experiencing solely through sense-based happiness we’re unconsciously stating that lasting happiness can only be found WITHOUT thereby subjectively denying our real “within” bliss consciousness. An automatic loop is proclaiming: when I find that special person, house, employment, fame etc., happiness will COME, then I’ll be happy. Such mind-sets are delusional. Outcomes as these will of course make the ego feel happy or inflated but, due to evolution and change, such happiness can never be lasting, only fleeting, as such, requires constant “topping-up”. Dependence on outer-world happiness leads to addictive personality — mind / senses becoming overpowered through stimulant attachment to almost everything it/they encounter thereby denying our innately present Heart happiness.The mind, through on-going discontent, instinctively seeks happiness through the senses, that’s its nature — but mind can never be satisfied until it comes upon its true nature — bliss. With the senses duty-bound to serve the mind, the non-spiritually awakening mind will accept artificial happiness from any source — to include political, religious or corporate dogmas,not to mention the “world” menu — but this sense thirst craving can never be quenched by the “world” — by outer sources.While the mind is cosmically encoded to fulfilling its full stature of expanded eternality in bliss or divine consciousness, the process requires individual conscious decision, meaning, engaging in meditational practices such as deep inner silence leading to bliss-consciousness.So long as the addictive-driven senses remain the sole provider of contentment, mind remains out of its own cosmic bliss nature, thus functioning in the realm of sub consciousness or spiritual ignorance. In finding bliss mind finds everlasting natural fulfillment, contentment, and, no longer scours the “world” junk-menu for sense-fixes.“Lost” to Wisdom and Life DirectionConsider the following. Have we ever been lost in a strange location in a foreign Country? And through a sense of panic, we automatically take every wrong turn thus leading to more anxiety – we lose our natural bearings. Out of fear we tune OUT instead of IN. We do this instinctively when we lose inner calm and come under the controlling grip of ice-chilling fear. Similarly, through discontentment, self-doubt, lack of Self-awareness, contradicting mind-sets, stress, fear, worry and “fix” hunting, (addictions), mind / nervous system become exhausted and spiritually disorientated — “lost”. Panic severs our route to divine wisdom and we’re automatically drawn outwards, become ego or fear-led (scripture puts it: “Peter drew his sword and severed the arresting guard’s right ear”, in Gethsemane, John 18:1-10, meaning fear / dominant ego, cuts of the path to our Higher Self wisdom). “Peter” in scripture, of course, represents the lower ego, to which Jesus rebukes saying: “get behind Me heathen” (negative mind-sets). In other words, don’t lead through lower ego or “world”-formed conditioning, rather through “Me”, our own inner awakening love-natured, wisdom-full soul.Similarly, through weariness and fatiguing lifestyles, we seem naturally to make strange and irrational decisions all of which can lead mind to settling for a crutched existence, a fake unnatural or contrived happiness to ease life’s burdens and respite from chore responsibilities. Wisdom is blocked and we classically miss the calm portal to where this Glorious bliss happiness dwells transcendentally (within).I’m sure most of us are familiar with the following, but, for the benefit of those not, here’s a repeat. When the Good Lord was looking for a safe spot to place this Jewel of Happiness, (biblical Prince of Peace) he placed it where we could never lose it no matter how ‘lost’ we became. He placed it within consciousness for such requires transcendental journeying, requires activating the metamorphic meditation button to inner cosmic calm nature. This within-consciousness represents our eternal Spiritual Essence as separate from egoism finite mind. This “within spot” isn’t a physical place, rather a state: our unseen transcendental or raised Christ Nature. When we cease frantically searching WITHOUT for happiness, and direct mind (in meditation) to within thus do we engage or activate were the Good Lord placed the wondrous happiness Jewel. Here we discover the calm-imbued doorway leading “lost” egoistical mind from its finite island-refuge of outer happiness reliance to the expansive, eternal ocean of inner transcendental bliss; the soul’s sonar becoming re-attuned with its “forgotten” (conditioned over) cosmic nature.On reaching the “Jewel spot” within, the mind’s subconscious programming (addictive mind-sets) begin dissolving, defragging — prioritizing through wisdom — and, in proportion to senses / mind purification, human consciousness comes within the range of the never-changing state of Cosmic Consciousness — “Will of God” — or Eternal Truth.Conscious “Contact”God is Love /Spirit and man/woman is made (of Spirit) in the (creative) image (imagination) and likeness (love nature) of God. True, BUT, it’s “conscious contact” which validates Love experientially, which gives meaning to all this spiritual language we speak and read about, for, intellectual knowledge alone (of Spirit) isn’t sufficient.Although unconditional by nature, (as in, the reservoir unconditionally supplies water to every pipe RAISED to it) Love, in this regard, is conditional that we make “meditational silence” contact. Thus, the emphasis needs to be on raising our consciousness, engaging Spirit Consciousness through technique-based practices such as yoga, meditation and mindfulness rather than relentlessly “searching” for intellectual validations. Meditational nature lived through our nervous system validates ALL scriptures simultaneously even if we’ve never read any scriptures. In fact it’s only after a degree of meditational purification, (mind expansion) that any of these biblical scriptures begin making any practical, everyday-life sense.My interpretation of Matthew 6:33: “Seek ye first the Kingdom and all its righteousness and all else shall be added unto you”, is: seek meditational bliss silence thereby activating the Thymus love gland — the Sacred or Cosmic Heart — thus is human consciousness set upon the transformational process of becoming realized in Christ Consciousness.
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Hey everyone Today, I’m going to talk with you about five tips to beat anxiety, So stay tuned. So, like I said Today, I want to talk with you about five helpful tips to beat anxiety. I’ve heard from so many of you that you struggle with this, And there are so many ways that we can help ourselves, And this is only five. There are tons of ways, But these are just some helpful tips to get. You started Number one Keeping busy all day. I know that sounds really silly and simple, But often times our anxiety, loves and lives in the quiet When we have nothing to do And we are sitting at home And we are moping about It. Kind of takes a mole hill and turns it into a mountain When we have time to ruminate and think about things, It can make it so much worse. But if we are just going about our day, We’re doing things We’re making deals. We’re breaking hearts. We don’t have time to think about it. So I would encourage you if you are able plan your days out, Make sure you have things happening Back to back to back You,’re scooting on through The second helpful tip. Is what we call’feeling focusing 39, And this is something that we can do, no matter where we are, Which I love about tips, Because we never know when the anxiety may strike And feeling focusing is when we focus on the area in our body where We feel the anxiety For some of us. It might be our throat Our chest, Our stomach. It could be in our shoulders Wherever you feel it physically. I want you to focus on that spot And I want you to slowly breath into it And if you find your mind wandering Bring it back to that spot Keep breathing. Slowly – And I know this is just one of those things where you are like’Kati – that sounds really weird 39, But I promise you, by drawing your focus back to the area in your body. Back to that area Over and over Your anxiety will diminish It.’s because our mind can’t go out, searching for more things to worry us with It slowly, dissipates. The third helpful tip is exercise Now. Obviously I don’t want you to do anything to an extreme, But taking a thirty minute walk If you like to run and it’s not unhealthy, You go for a run. Maybe you jump some rope. Maybe you take your dog out. Maybe you walk with a friend, Maybe you do yoga Whatever it is. If you play tennis Play basketball There’s, so many things to do Just last week I went to Target and got Sean and I some tennis, rackets and basketballs. So we can play Anything. You can do to exert some physical energy Can help with anxiety, Often times when we have a lot of pent up. Energy Anxiety thrives So having an outlet for that. Even if it’s just nervous energy, Having an outlet like exercise Can really help bring it down. The fourth helpful tip is phoning a friend I feel like we are on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, But it’s really important to contact people and to have people on what I always talk to my clients about on your’emergency call list’And this isn’t a real this isn’t like an emergency 39. I’m going to the ER I’m bleeding I broke a bone 39. This is 39. I’m feeling stressed I’m feeling overwhelmed. I don’t know what to do right now. 39. We need to have at least five people on this list. If you can, Because we never know who can pick up right, Some people might be in class. Some people might be asleep. Some people might be at work, We don’t know, But we want to make sure we have people that we can contact Even if it’s a text. I know now we text more than we actually call, But I want you to reach out to people Because having someone on the line Having someone talking to us, I think calling is the best Because hearing someone’s voice can be so soothing And sometimes when We feel like we are a ten on our anxiety scale. It can help bring us back down to maybe a six Or a five And the more we talk with them And the more we kind of vent to them about what’s going on with us. The better we will start to feel The fifth and final tip Is something that I don’t really talk that much about on my channel, And that is going to see a psychiatrist. And the reason that I wanted to put this in here Is because there are those of us who doing these things. This feeling focusing we’re exercising, We’re trying everything to help ourselves. We’re seeing our own therapist And nothing gives It’s not getting better, And sometimes it’s getting worse And seeing a psychiatrist. They can offer medications that can help with it. Now. Obviously, I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I’m, not a physician. I don’t prescribe medication, But it can be so helpful and so pivotal in your recovery And don’t be ashamed of it. Many people seek help from psychiatrists. How else would they even exist? They wouldn’t have a job or career People see them. When we can’t do enough ourselves, The medication can help us get there. I often tell my clients – and this still rings. True. All research shows that therapy and medication gives us the best possible outcome, Because sometimes our mind is running so quickly. Things are happening so fast That we can’t even think about doing anything to help ourselves. We’re just trying to stay afloat. It’s so overwhelming, And medication can help with that, Bring that anxiety level down enough That we can actually take action. We can start making steps towards our recovery, Putting things in place, Creating plans. It can give us that little bit of squish. We need to get started, So I would encourage you If you have tried a lot of things And that’s not helping Reach out to your psychiatrist Or your general practitioner doctor And let’s start working on recovery. As always, don’t forget to subscribe to my channel. I put out videos five days a week And you don’t want to miss them, And if you have any tips and tricks of your own That have helped with your anxiety. Can you let us know below, Because we’re a wonderful community Sharing in our experience And together we’re getting better And we are towards a healthy mind and a healthy body. Now don’t forget to like the video And if you click below there,’s a little share button. Don’t forget to share it on reddit. That will help more people, get the tips and tricks that we know about. It will help get that information out there And keep working with me Towards a healthy mind and a healthy body. The snaps don’t bug the Okay, I like to snap Subtitles by the Amara org community.
I'm going to show you how to stop having panic
attacks using exposure therapy, coping skills and grounding skills and you can start applying
this to your life. Right now. I'm clinical psychologist Dr. Ali Mattu. Psychology took me from almost flunking out
of high school to becoming an assistant professor at Columbia University. Now I've left academia so I can give away
everything I've learned to you for free. Welcome to the psych show. The first step to stopping panic attacks is
to understand what exactly is happening when someone has a panic attack.
They experience a sudden rise in at least
four of these symptoms. It's normal to feel the sensations when we're
in a real dangerous situation like an animal's chasing us or before an important event, like
a presentation for school or work. But what's so scary about panic attacks is
the sensations can feel like they're coming out of nowhere. Your mind is an association machine. It connects things together, ice cream and
a beautiful summer's day movies in popcorn and email from your boss and stress. All of this happens automatically it happens
without you even realizing it through a process called classical conditioning. This is the stuff Ivan Pavlov was working
on when he got dogs to salivate when they heard a metronome, sometimes weird things
get associated together.
And for some reason, your mind has associated
normal physical sensations of anxiety with a real sense of danger. Maybe you were really sick one day and had
difficulty breathing or you were driving across a bridge and there was a lot more traffic
than usual and you felt stuck and unsafe or you were using a drug and had a really bad
experience with it. There are so many ways in which your mind
You can experience those physical sensations of panic and why it might associate those
sensations with danger. If you avoid going to certain places because
you're afraid you might panic or you might do something really embarrassing. You might also have agoraphobia. This gets us to step two exposure therapy. It doesn't matter too much how these associations
formed, what matters is they exist now. So we have to understand what is it that you're
afraid might happen? When you panic, I want you to take a moment
and write that down, write down what it is you're afraid might happen when you panic.
Maybe you're afraid that the panic attack
will end. Maybe you're afraid of having a heart attack,
or something really embarrassing happening, like fainting or making a fool of yourself
or the ambulance and all these people being called Your rescue when it was a panic attack
and not a heart attack. Or maybe you're afraid of losing control of
hurting yourself hurting someone else of losing your mind, or maybe even dying. I wish I could tell you to not worry about
this stuff. But you've already tried that and it hasn't
worked. You can't out think panic attacks, these associations
have been formed. And the only way we can break them apart is
by gaining new experiences and that is where exposure therapy comes in. Before I introduce you to exposure therapy
exercises, there's a couple things you need to know first, these exercises require you
to get physically active.
So if you have any health problems like any
of these conditions, talk to your doctor first and make sure it's okay to try out these exercises. Number two, if you're someone who has gone
through a traumatic event or traumatic events, you might want to skip ahead and master step
three and four first and then come back to exposure exercises. The reason for that step three and four are
going to help you to feel more in control of your emotions.
And if you're someone who's gone through a
traumatic event, just going through exposures without gaining that sense of control can
make the exposures really overwhelming and can make it harder to break apart those associations. Remember those fears we wrote down a moment
ago. What we're going to do now is try out a variety
of exposure exercises and see what gets us in closest contact with that fear.
These exposure exercises are designed to recreate
those sensations that you experience when you panic. So it might seem scary at first, what I want
you to remember is they're not painful. They're designed to get your body active in
the same way as when you have a panic attack. I want you after every exercise to rate them,
zero to 100% house Similar were the things you felt when you did this exercise to when
you experience a panic attack hyperventilate for one minute, hold your nose and breathe
through a straw for two minutes. Hold your breath for 30 seconds. Sit with your head covered by a heavy coat
or blanket for one minute.
Place a tongue depressor on the back of your
tongue Run quickly in place with high knees for two minutes. Step Up and down on the stair or a step stool
for two minutes. Hold up push up position for 60 seconds or
as long as possible. Sit in a hot stuffy room or sauna, a hot car
or a small room with a space heater. wear a tie turtleneck or scarf tightly around
your neck for two minutes. Drink a hot drink. Drink an espresso or coffee spin in an office
chair for one minute spin around while standing up for one minute.
Shake your head side to side for 30 seconds
while looking ahead. with your eyes open, put your head between
your legs and then sit up quickly. Lie down for one minute and then sit up quickly. Stare at yourself in a mirror for two minutes. Stare at a blank wall for two minutes. Stare at a small dot posted on the wall for
two minutes. Stare at an optical illusion for two minutes,
stare at a fluorescent light and then try to read something What got you closest in
touch with your fears? Usually 1-3 of these exercises should do it
now that you know how to recreate your fears. You have to start practicing these exposure
exercises. So I want you to take one week of your life. And each day that week. I want you to sit down and practice these
exposure exercises. Write down on a piece of paper what you're
afraid might happen when you do the exposure exercise. Then do the exposure completely fully be in
that present moment.
Be aware of what's happening in your mind
during the exposure, what's happening in your body. And then after the exposure on that same piece
of paper write down. Did your fear come true? Yes or no? How do you know if it came true or not? And what did you learn through this exposure,
then do it again, do it three times in a row. If you do this for one week in time, you should
start to break apart those associations that have been formed. Once you start to make progress with these
exposures, then you want to play with the details a little bit like maybe you do this
when you're home alone, or when you're outside in a crowded space or after drinking a lot
of caffeine. Check out this video right over here. It'll walk you through even more details.
To sum it all up. The goal is, I want to help you get comfortable
being uncomfortable. I want to help you to learn about what it's
like. experienced these difficult sensations and
then what actually happens to you when you go through them. So these associations are starting to break
apart. Now it's time to move to step three, which
is developing coping skills. But before I explain some of my favorite coping
skills, we have to talk about what a coping skill is and what a safety behavior is.
Safety behaviors give you some immediate relief,
but they keep you from getting in contact with the thing you fear. And when that happens when you're relying
on safety behaviors. These associations they don't break apart
because you're not learning any new information, completely avoiding a situation being on the
lookout for escapes, only being able to get through with a safe person. Those are some examples of things that can
be safety behaviors, coping skills, reduce your anxiety and help you to stay in contact
with the thing you fear So those associations do break apart. Because you are learning new information you
are getting in contact with a thing that is difficult for you safety behaviors reduce
learning, while coping skills enhance it. This can get really tricky because what's
a safety behavior for one person might be a coping skill for another. And what starts off as a coping skill might
eventually become a safety behavior. So it can get really confusing. All this stuff exists on a continuum from
highly safe behavior to highly coping behavior. To keep it really simple.
Ask yourself these two questions. Is this skill helping me to reach my goal
right now? is it helping me to be flexible in the situation I'm in? If the answers are, yes, that's probably a
good healthy coping skill. If the answer is no, then you might be dealing
with a safety behavior that you want to phase out over time. The first goal I want you to try is slow,
deep controlled breathing. This slows down your breathing, which triggers
your body's parasympathetic nervous system, the part of your body that calms you down. I got a whole video about this, so you can
check that out. But the quick version of it is, you want to
work your way up to breathing in for four seconds. Holding it and then out for four seconds,
so you can start by breathing in for two seconds, holding it out for two seconds, breathing
in for three seconds, holding it out for three seconds and then four.
And you can just keep doing that until you
feel like you're a little bit calmer and a little bit more present the dive reflex. This is a awesome skill that is universal
to all vertebrates on this planet. Basically you are fooling your body into thinking
you're diving into the water that also triggers your body's parasympathetic nervous system
that calms itself down. I've got a whole video on how to do that. So if you're interested in that skill, check
out that video. Get physically active, your body is fired
up.
So do something with that energized body. Go for run, go for a bike ride, do a ton of
jumping jacks do something that gives your body something to do think about The Doctor. One of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who
has The Doctor talking to a small child who's afraid of monsters under his bed. Now, there actually are monsters under his
bed spoilers for those of you haven't seen this episode, but it's you know, Doctor Who
that's going to happen.
But what's really amazing is what he tells
this child it's one of my favorite quotations about panic, and I'm going to read it to you
all here because I don't want this video taken down due to copyright violations filed from
the BBC. Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard. I can feel it through your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through
your brain. It's like rocket fuel. Right now you can run faster and fight harder. You can jump higher than you've ever been
able to in your life. And you are so alert. It's like you can slow down time. What's wrong with scared? Scared is a superpower your superpower there
is danger in this room and guess what? It's you reach out to someone. Call text dm, connect with someone else. Ask them to send you support. Ask them to send you a funny meme to reassure
you or talk to them about something that's completely not related to panic. Connecting with someone else might help you
to get a little bit out of your head and help you to reach your Goal whatever it is in that
situation question for all the Psychees What is your favorite coping skill? Let's flood the comments section with a ton
of coping skills, so we can help whoever discovers this video in the future.
Step number four is to develop grounding skills. Some people who experienced panic also experienced
depersonalization or Derealization. This is where you are going through the motions
of your day. But you don't really feel that plugged in
to yourself to your body to your mind, you might feel like you're on autopilot. Or you might not feel like the things around
you are really happening.
One of my patients recently described it as
having this brain fog and it was really hard to just kind of navigate through daily events. So if this kind of stuff happens to you, we
need grounding skills that help you to feel plugged into your body plugged into your mind
plugged into the present. moment, or they ground you in an important
memory and important place or an important idea. Grounding skills can also be really helpful
if someone around you is having a panic attack and you want to help that person through this
difficult experience 54321 This is a skill that really engages all of your different
senses. It starts by looking at five different things
around you, then to touch four different things to listen to three different sounds, to pick
up on two different smells. And to notice one taste, it's usually whatever
taste is in your mouth. You really want to try to focus in on those
sensations and if there's one type of sensation that works a lot better for you.
It's okay just to stick to that one. Like if you really like the touching to touch
your hands or to touch your jeans or the material on your shirts. Stuff like that you can just focus on that
sensation that's totally fine. Make a list pick something that you know well,
and that you can't easily finish like your favorite movies or your favorite superheroes
or the places you like to go and your local community. I like to pick my favorite starships from
Star Trek and I just kind of cycle through those guys.
I'm a huge Trekkie. This is something that's going to ground you
in an idea, something that you care about, and it's going to make that feeling of depersonalization
Derealization, a little bit less scary, transport yourself to a place you know, well, this could
be your home, your school, your work, doesn't really matter where it is only what matters
is that you know a lot of details about it. Imagine walking through the front door of
this place entering it. What do you see next? what's around you keep thinking about all
the details as you navigate through the space.
This is going to ground you in a place that's
very familiar to you. And again, take you away from those some of
those feelings of depersonalization and derealization. Experience intense sensations. This includes listening to loud music or a
really funny video on YouTube, drinking a hot beverage, or sucking on a lemon or peppermint
candy. pinching the bridge of your nose, snapping
a rubber band against your arm, anything that's going to shock your nervous system and focus
your complete attention, get absorbed in an activity, do something that's going to completely
require all of your focus maybe something that you do well or you know how to do well
something that's really going to activate your mind and get your hands moving. Something like that would also get you out
of depersonalization derealization and make you feel a bit more present If you've tried
everything in this video and are still struggling there's two things I want you to consider.
The first is speaking with an anxiety expert,
a therapist who can guide you through this process in a much more detailed way than I
can in a short YouTube video. The other thing to consider is a consultation
with a psychiatrist, they might be able to prescribe medication that can bring down the
intensity of anxiety so that you can greater apply these things to your life.
If you want to learn more about anxiety check
out this playlist that has all my anxiety videos, you can learn a lot more about exposure
therapy and my own journey with anxiety or right over there. All right now it's time for the weekly Geck
Boo (GCBU) challenge. This is where I share how I'm working on getting
comfortable being comfortable this week. The big thing for me this week has been trying
to catch up on my inbox over the summer and fall I really let things get out of hand.
I had hundreds and hundreds of emails that
were that were needed a response. And I haven't responded to. So this week, the uncomfortable thing for
me is to go through it because it's very overwhelming to even open that inbox and to write uncomfortable
messages where I say, Hey, I'm sorry for this late response. I had a lot going on. And I'm now getting back to you like a year
after I promised. I'm so sorry. So that's, that's my weekly Geck Boo challenge.
What are you working on? Let me know in the comments below. Or if you want to join me this Friday, I'm
hosting my weekly office hours. This is a time where for one hour on Instagram,
I go live to hear about what you are working on out there in the Psychee community, and
how I can help and how we can help each other to reach our goals and to help each other
get comfortable being uncomfortable. So if you want to join me for my weekly live
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now my favorite comment of the week.
It was the most peaceful, joyous, incredible,
life changing experience I've ever had in my life. There were scary parts, foreboding
parts … I always knew there was beautiful and joy and peace on the other side of it.
It was freeing, it was really freeing. This is Alana. She’s describing what she
felt after she took a dose of this stuff — psilocybin. It’s a naturally occurring psychedelic compound,
the kind you find in magic mushrooms. But she wasn’t tripping in a dorm room or
at Woodstock — it actually wasn’t recreational at all.
If anything became unreal or I was feeling nervous or not in touch with reality, I would
squeeze his hand and he would squeeze mine back just to reassure me that I was okay and
everything was alright. It was part of a controlled medical test to
see if psychedelics could be useful in helping people quit cigarettes. Alana had been smoking
for 37 years before her session with psilocybin, and she hasn’t had a cigarette since. Research on psychedelics for medical use is
preliminary. Most studies suffer from really small sample sizes.
That’s partly because the
federal government lists LSD and psilocybin as Schedule 1 drugs. So researchers face extra
red tape, and funding is really hard to come by. Vox writer German Lopez reviewed dozens of
studies that have been done. He found that psychedelics show promise for treating addiction,
OCD, anxiety, and in some cases, depression. One small study of 15 smokers found that 80
percent were able to abstain from smoking for six months after a psilocybin treatment.
In a pilot study of 12 advanced cancer patients suffering from end-of-life anxiety, participants
who took psilocybin generally showed lower scores on a test of depression.
And smaller study suggested psilocybin treatment could also help people with alcohol dependence
cut back on their drinking days.
We don’t have all the answers as to what
exactly these treatments are doing in the brain. But they seem to work by providing
a meaningful, even mystical experience that leads to lasting changes in a patient's life. The issues that I talked about, or thought about, or went into during my experience were transformative in the sense that I got to look at them through a different lens. I know this sounds weird, I feel like I have more connections in my brain that I couldn't
access before That feeling that Alana is describing is actually
pretty spot-on. When you take LSD your brain looks something
like this. You can actually see a higher degree of connectivity
between various parts of the brain, it’s not limited to the visual cortex.
This communication inside the brain helps explain visual hallucinations — and the researchers argue that it could
also explain why psychedelics can help people overcome serious mental issues.
They wrote that you can think of psychiatric disorders as the brain being “entrenched
in pathology.” Harmful patterns become automated and hard to change, and that’s what can make
things like anxiety, addiction and depression very hard to treat. That’s Albert Garcia-Romeu, he’s a Johns Hopkins researcher who worked on studies of
of psilocybin and smoking addiction, like the one that Alana's involved with. He says that when participants take psychedelics, One of the big remaining questions here is
how long these benefits actually last after just the one-time treatment.
A review of research on LSD-assisted psychotherapy and alcoholism found no statistically significant
benefits after 12 months. And a recent study on psilocybin and depression
found that benefits significantly dropped off after three months. And of course are some big risks to using
psychedelic drugs. It’s hard to predict a patient’s reaction
and some might actually endanger themselves.
Those predisposed to psychotic conditions
are especially at risk for having a traumatic experience while on the drug.
It’s difficult to draw solid conclusions from the existing studies.
But there’s more than enough promise here to merit further research and further funding
for that research. As Matthew Johnson of Johns Hopkins said,
"These are among the most debilitating and costly disorders known to humankind.” For
some people, no existing treatments help. But psychedelics might. One thing you might still be wondering is why so much of this research is so new, when we've known when we've known about psychedelics for thousands of years. Well since these drugs are so old, they can't be patented, which means that pharmaceutical companies don't really have any incentive to fund any research into them.
So that really leaves it up to governments and private contributors to fund all these studies. And there actually was a lot of research done into these drugs in the 50s and 60s, but there was a big enough backlash to the abuse of psychedelics in that period, especially around events like Woodstock, that funding really dried up, and research stopped. And that's why it's only now that we see this research happening, with private, not government contributions..
Many of us experienced symptoms of anxiety Whether it is from testing or applying for a new job But some people find it difficult to stop worrying Even in seemingly normal situations, this has a lasting effect on me Their quality of life, so what happens? And why do they get so anxious? Nearly seven million people Have general disorder which means That they are exposed to excessive anxiety most days, for a period of not less than six months This includes sleep disturbance, agitation and muscle strain Panic attacks may also occur, but their nature varies as they come In sudden and short periods of excessive fear that leads to Violent physical reaction such as tachycardia, shortness of breath and dizziness In fact, anyone can suffer from a panic attack, whether or not they have the disorder There may be no specific cause for this panic attack Although we do not fully understand it, anxiety is partly caused by the amygdala "glory" and the hypothalamus, which are responsible for circulating cortisol and adrenaline in the body. Genetically, 40 percent of people with general disorder have a relative with the same disease Which means I levels of these hormones you have linked to your genes The environment around you may be another factor Some diseases of the disorder are associated with traumatic experiences in childhood Levels of neutron transmitters such as GABA, serotonin, and dopamine may change Be another reason.
Serotonin hormone is responsible About the feeling of luxury and happiness It works by moving between Neuron and another in the brain via a difference called "synapses" Any unused Serotonin returns to the original neuron by a special carrier But those with certain anxiety disorders like OCD It has been suggested that a mutation in these vectors multiply the amount of Serotonin returned Before it gets to the receiving neuron This results in a decrease in the amount of the difference, "Synapse", leading to the effect of the feelings This was the reason for using drugs such as SSRIs In these anxiety states, Serotonin is prevented from returning to the original Neuron Also, many anxiety diseases show an excessive reaction in the amygdala and the gray area "periaqueductal gray area". This results in negative effects not only on the brain Even on our bodies.
In a study of nearly 300 people for a period of five years Those who had an amygdala tonsil with an overactive reaction showed higher rates of heart disease. Because the amygdala stimulates the production of white blood cells In the bone marrow leading Inflorescence affects Artery heart artery If you have a fear of a cause (phobia), this is one of the forms of anxiety diseases But since many fears help us to survive Like fear of spiders or heights, it has been suggested that These concerns may be stored in the DNA and inherited When mice are electrocuted after being exposed to a fruit smell They quickly learn to fear that smell But interestingly, the new generations of mice Also, you are afraid of these same fruit scents. Although generations of new mice did not experience electric shocks, it turned out to be Because of the strong reaction of the electrocution in the brain aromatherapy receptors Make new generations more sensitive to the same smells In such a way that the receivers are turned on for those odors These smells are associated with some cases of phobia.
For treatment, cognitive behavior therapy helps Get to know the thoughts that stimulate feelings Affecting behavior and aims to Change these thoughts to fight anxiety diseases On the other hand, medicines like SRIs and SNRIS It is used to prevent the absorption of serotonin or noreprivin But it may result in side effects and sometimes It negatively affects long use Benzodiazepines are also used to aid sleep Muscle relaxation, but it is also associated with dementia in older generations It is important to know that the basis of nervous and chemical anxiety is very complex And telling someone who is infected to calm down will not produce any result So we decided to make another video and show us what we're doing In order to overcome anxiety with some tips and tricks that We think it works. You can see it by clicking here. Subscribe for weekly science videos every Thursday .
