Mental Health Insights
Neil and Heather discuss the balance between medication and therapy for mental health issues, emphasizing the importance of non-medication based treatments like mindfulness and talk therapy before considering medication. They highlight the synergistic effect of combining medication with mindfulness-based or talk therapies for more effective outcomes.In this clip
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Mind Over Matter with Dan Harris, Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Heather Berlin
Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and every time they see the spider or get triggered, they immediately use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
Is anxiety a physiological phenomenon that can be treated as such instead of mentally, as discussed in the episode #614: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and the clip Rethinking Psychiatric Medications?
Is anxiety a physiological phenomenon that can be treated as such instead of mentally, as discussed in episode #614: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and the clip Rethinking Psychiatric Medications?