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ArtVandalay

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Going on a year and a half off opiates, on suboxone maintenance. Been in therapy for a year to deal with my anxiety. Recently I began doing bio-feedback. It's basically learning how to regulate your breathing, controlling your diaphram. After only two sessions I've noticed a decrease in my general anxiety. It especially helps when I feel a panic attack coming on- I picture the visual of my breath and am able to control it, slow it down. Just wanted to put it out there as an option for those who suffer from anxiety. Has any one else tried this?
 
It sounds like a great tool. I actually have a program that I bought that works with my home computer, so I can do it at home, but I've found that meditating actually has the same goal, and that's what I do.
 
Yeah it's the same principles as meditation. I'm a visual learner, so it helps being able to see the line graph going up and down. It's helped with my breathing in yoga as well.
 
^ I have heard amazing results from bio-feedback for anxiety. I was very distressed when I was looking for non-drug help for my son that it was widely available where I live but not covered at all by insurance and very, very expensive. He was pretty young at the time (about 11) and I tried to get him interested in an on-line bio feedback program specifically for kids but he was not interested. (You can lead a horse to water....)

@betty, was the program you bought expensive? This is the sort of thing that I wish could just be free for anyone that needs it. Like I said earlier, I have heard nothing but positives about it from many people. I'm really glad to hear it is helping, Art, and congratulations on being off the opiates. <3
 
I don't understand the difference between bio-feedback and meditation. Can someone fill me in? Is it the same thing as EMDR?
 
^Bio-feedback you are hooked up to machines that measure things like brainwaves (for one example) and you learn to consciously affect them because you can actually see the difference on the screen.
 
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