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A Cure is not so Obscure
Posted on Saturday, April 10 @ 23:25:51 BST by Neomie |
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The brain is not fixed, but a living, ever-changing organism - a whole UNIVERSE of its own, created by experience, moment by moment.
The medical profession may not have a chemical cure for trichotillomania, but could neuro-science help us, as individual trichsters, to bio-chemically cure ourselves?
Neuroscientists are continually detecting and documenting how we can change the structure of our brains, to bring about that feel-good factor. Such change is brought about not by radical surgery or medication, but through altered attitudes and behaviour.
Negative experience can activate the negativity of the gene pool, but we can choose to experience our genes positively.
DNA influences, but does not determine your happiness or lack of it. If your parents and grandparents weren't happy-go-lucky or carefree, you might have to work 50% harder to achieve happiness, but you CAN still get there.
High activity at the left frontal area of the cerebral cortex indicates happiness and high energy, while activity in the right frontal area of the cerebral cortex indicates sadness and stress.
Stroke survivors with left lesions, suffer depression, while those who have suffered a stroke to the right side, display manic tendencies - showing that positive and negative aspects both need to be balanced for the brain to function healthily - a complete reinforcement of what physicians and metaphysicians have always said : the Universe needs both positive and negative energy to survive and a surplus of either leads to imbalance.
Creative, right hemisphere oriented people may, understandably have tendencies towards anxiety and depression, but we now know the tools to change those feelings can be as simple as activating the left-hand side of the brain.
Bingo! It really IS as simple as applying our logic to organisation and programming, to balance our brain function,
Here's what neoro-science reveals :
When a baby is born, the brain is just beginning to form. If adequately cared for, the individual evolves and becomes successful through her flexibility and adaptability to the stresses of life.
The key to a baby's wellbeing and mood regulation, is her emotional connection with her primary caregiver. This primary relationship directly influences her ability to react or respond to stress.
Genetic, organic, and neurochemical foundations for impulse control are formed in the first two years, as are rationality and sensitivity to other people.
The neural pathways, or connections, formed during the early years carry signals and allow us to process information throughout our lives.
How we think and learn - from childhood to adulthood, depends upon how well these connections are made.
We are genetically programmed to expect our primary caregiver to meet our needs, but the outcome of this expectation, depends on a variety of factors influencing the parent?s ability and willingness to meet the baby's needs.
The baby responds to the caregiver?s responsiveness, and in normal circumstances, develops as a happy, social and curious child.
Detrimental early experiences can cause a child to develop learning challenges and hyperactivity, emotional difficulties, and/or poor impulse-control. Parts of the brain organically evolve and structurally alter, to create each of these traits.
The orbitofrontal cortex of the brain controls sociability and relationships, and is highly affected by the quality of the relationship with the primary care giver.
This area of the forebrain determines whether we feel close to someone, as well as our sense of self, episodic memory and our perception of our future.
The orbitofrontal cortex regulates the nervous system, helping the individual to move easily from arousal to inner peace, to facilitate friendships, read relationships, emotions, body-language, voice tone and especially eye contact, to monitor the state of the body and evaluate sensations.
The circuits for self-control survive when the baby's security stays in tact. When negative experiences persist, the distress response causes the brainstem and midbrain to become over-developed. These areas of the brain are designed to maintain alertness to the presence of predators, and the child?s fear levels increase : The actual result may be an adult who perceives danger in safety and safety in danger - because negative environments feel familiar, while positive situations do not.
The child may become hyper-aroused and disassociated, as well as possibly behaving impulsively, suffering anxiety, poor emotional control, disorganisation and maturity may be stunted. Problem solving and logic may be impaired.
Cortisol, the neuro-chemical response to threat ? real or perceived ? is increased and raises fear levels again, in turn triggering the re-release of further cortisol.
Surges of cortisol can cause cell loss in the hippocampus, adversely affecting memory recall, and corroding those regions in the cortex and limbic system responsible for emotions and attachment.
It has been proven possible, though, to reduce these cortisol surges and even to stop them, by being aware of the difference between perceived danger and actual danger ... by lowering the heart rate and deepening the breathing, by smiling and utilizing the right side of the body more.
Stimulating serotonin levels naturally, will change the structure of your brain sufficiently, over a period of time, so that you can regulate your own neuro-transmitters instead of having a primitive survival system do it for you.
In Trichnotherapy
we encourage people to make long term significant changes structurally, to bring about a sense of wellbeing.
Here are some behaviours to boost the brain and stimulate serotonin:
1. Community ? a sense of belonging to something (even an online community like ours) nurturing close relationships. Self-expression. Accept, acknowledge and express your emotions, even if only to yourself.
2. Eat healthily and frequently. Regularity of food, sleep, exercise, activity, inactivity and companionship.
3. Consciously choosing positive thought when faced with negative thought.
4. Organisation ? the knowledge of achieiving one's best;
5. Keeping records of positive experiences, gratitudes and compliments;
6. Acting happy, including body language, posture and smiling. Usage of the right hand side of the body as much as possible, to activate the left hemisphere of your brain, which induces positive and assertive feelings.
7. Meditation, living in the NOW and giving full attention to everything you do.
Meditation may seem out of reach for the majority of trichsters, due to the mind mayhem which runs riot at rest times, but simple exercise and affirmations can be as neuro-chemically rewarding as meditation, if performed with full awareness.
(c) Neomie Da Costa 2004
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Re: A Cure is not so Obscure (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, July 30 @ 00:38:45 BST | The John Kender diet has worked so well for me. I have been hairpulling for 22years, since I was eight. The key factor for me was discovering my food triggers. I cannot eat eggs. That alone has helped me with 85% of my hair pulling. The next 12% has been cutting back on excessive sugar or junk food, caffiene, and once again, making sure there is no eggs in my food.(mayo has eggs, icecream has eggs etc)
When I feel normal, I dont even notice my pull spots, or think of them. When I am going to start to have to pull, I notice them as itchy or somehow annoying. When I start noticing them, I rub echinecea and goldenseal powder on the spots and miraculosly I sleep all night, without waking up to a pile of hair on the floor in the morning.
Sometimes when I am not paying attention, I can still pull out a hair now and again, but AMAZINGLY only like ONE or TWO then I stop. That is a Maximum of one or two per day, if that many. This is the last 3% that I am working on. But I notice if I overeat it is more likely to happen. COmpare, I used to have piles of hair at my bedside EVERY night, My permanent bald spots were spreading, now I MIGHT pull one or two a day.- And I have hair everywhere on my head, I may have short spots, but they are NOT bald! Yippee for me!
I think part of it may be related to psyche type stuff, but honestly, I think it can be cured by easier methods. It looks to me like it is more related to food, and the brain is reacting to what is being put in it, as opposed to the idea behavoral modification is the key. It may be the key, for the last 3% of my problem, but when Im into the pull, NOTHING can stop me. Good luck!
The cure really may be different for everyone, but never give up...until you have eliminated every wrong solution! |
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