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Mental Health & Trauma

For many of us, emotional health is a difficult topic to discuss because of the stigmatism attached to it. Our culture is fixated on labeling behaviors but other than providing a code to bill to insurance, it does little to help correct the issue.

Emotional Difficulties can be:

  • Anxiety/Depression
  • Impulse behaviors such as ADD/ADHD, PDD, ODD, Aspergers or Autism.
  • Obsessive or Compulsive thinking or behaviors such as gambling, sex, eating or shopping.
  • Stress related issues such as performance anxiety, panic attacks, high blood pressure, headaches or digestive issues.
  • Trauma issues like grief/loss, PTSD, phobias, physical, emotional or sexual abuse, sleep problems or nightmares.
  • And the list goes on…

Mental Health and Brain Dysregulation

But what if emotional health is the result of dysregulation of neural networks? What if there was a way to balance these without the use of synthetic chemicals? This can call for a change in diet, introduction of vitamins or testing for imbalances.

The brain has an amazing capacity for change. This is called neuroplasticity.

Every experience changes the brain, it takes events and develops perceptions, which in turn creates behaviors. If behaviors are repeated enough, neural networks begin to wire together and produce a predictable response to given stimulus. This can create an over or under functioning for areas of our brain as well as dramatic shifts in both directions . Brain mapping has taught us that different areas of our brain are utilized in performing certain operations. In addition to this, there are also physical deficiencies that can affect mental health, Again, the brain and body work as a seamless system.

We can break down emotional health issues into three basic categories, overarousal, underarousal or instabilities.

  • Overarousal is the overstimulation of a neural pathway.
  • Underarousal is the understimulation of a neural pathway.
  • Instability is the shifting between these two states.

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