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Medication for anxiety seems to cause anxiety
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@malebreastcancer47 : That's an interesting concept about the origins of depression and anxiety. From my own understanding, anxiety can be future-oriented as well as things perceived as threats, past experiences, bodily sensations or a sense of lack of control. Depression can be ruminating about the past, and can also be about worrying about the future, current intense emotions or extremely poor self-concept.
In treating depression, anxiety and/or attention deficit disorders, it does help to have providers who respect an individual's wishes to avoid medication intervention and offer alternative treatment, such as CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) as well as the neurofeedback and Alpha Stim you mentioned. Have you found that they have helped you? Howoften do you use these methods?
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I bought the Alpha Stim in April 2025 and use it now daily. I should use it twice a day, morning and before bed. Used often, the effects are lasting.
Neurofeedback, this will take time. Sometimes I feel placebo effect but know that NASA uses neurofeedback to train astronauts. Its mostly used for children but slowly being used by adults also. I have seen the research data but it also depends on person.
The first 5-10 sessions is to assess a baseline of your brain waves. My experience took 1 session because I use the Alpha Stim daily. Without it, changes to my sub-conscious would take longer.