The OCD patterns in your clients are tertiary\u2013they\u2019re defenses against emotional drive issues. In neurofeedback we would focus on resolving the emotional drive, then the OCD may melt away or be easier to train away.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Obsessive thought and compulsive behaviors are often used as a way of covering over either anxiety or depression, so you need to be sure to deal with what is underneath the defense before you just go in and blast it away\u2013if the brain LETS you blast it away. The TQ is a great way to start, because you\u2019ll get a better idea if you are looking at depression or anxiety as well as what the pattern is that is related to the O\/C behaviors.\u00a0 Some clients will show a hot cingulate (shows up at Fz or Cz); others will have high fast-wave coherences.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Start training what is underneath first, and the intellectual defenses will usually recede before you even start messing with the symptoms.\u00a0 Then the O\/C material is much easier to train.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The brain is not actually wired like a toaster.\u00a0 It forms and terminates connections constantly, so the idea that there is faulty wiring or circuitry is probably not terribly helpful.\u00a0 The brain learns responses\/strategies for dealing with challenges, and these do show up in the activation patterns of brain energy, where they tend to be quite stable.\u00a0 However, to suggest that OCD, which is generally a strategy adopted by a specific brain to block excessive depressive or anxious feelings, is anything other than an increasingly dysfunctional strategy has no real basis of which I\u2019m aware.\u00a0 It is already an overly frontal-lobe oriented attempt to intellectualize experience to avoid feeling it.\u00a0 Hence the anterior cingulate, which performs the function (among others) of serving as the spigot which determines how much or how little emotional material from the limbic system gets to the prefrontal cortex to be integrated into the decision-making process, is already over-working.\u00a0 That\u2019s why it gets \u201chot\u201d with excessive fastwave activity\u2013and later \u201cburned out\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The idea of brain training is that one can identify the places where the excess limbic energy is showing up cortically and train to reduce those levels, which reduces the \u201cpressure\u201d of emotional drive and allows the cingulate to perform in a more functional way.\u00a0 Since another function of the cingulate\/basal ganglia\/orbitofrontal cortex loop is to send messages to the pfc when a task has been completed, the previously overworked cingulate now has more capacity available to handle this task and the \u201cskipping\u201d which characterizes OCD\u2013not recognizing when something is done so the PFC can move on.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Obsessions and Compulsions The OCD patterns in your clients are tertiary\u2013they\u2019re defenses against emotional drive issues. In neurofeedback we would focus on resolving the emotional drive, then the OCD may melt away or be easier to train away. Obsessive thought and compulsive behaviors are often used as a way of covering over either anxiety or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":202,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"topic":[775],"class_list":["post-39338","answer","type-answer","status-publish","hentry","answer_topic-library-of-symptoms-problems-and-goals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n