Change The Chemsitry Of Your Brain!

 Recent studies indicate that psychotherapy can be helpful not only for mild depressions but also for serve depression as well. these findings are at odds with the popular belief that "talking therapy" can only help people with mild problems and that if you have serious depression you need to be treated with drugs.

Although we are taught that depression may result from an imbalance in brain chemistry ,recent studies indicate that cognitive behavioral therapy may actually change brain chemistry. in these studies,Dr.Lewis R. Baxter, Jr.Jeffrey M.Schwartz, Kenneth S.Bergman, and their colleagues at UCLA school of medicine," used positron emission tomography (PET scanning) to evaluate changes in brain metabolism in two groups of patients before and after treatment.one group received cognitive behavioral therapy and no drugs , and the other groups received an antidepressant medication and no psychotherapy As one might expect there were changes in brain chemistry in the patients in the drug therapy group who improved. these changes indicated that their brain metabolism had slowed down in other words the nerves in a certain region of the brain appeared to become more "relaxed."

What came as quite a surprise was there were similar changes in the brain of the patients successfully treated with cognitive behavioral therapy.however, these patients received no medications.further there were no significant differences in the brain changes in the drug therapy and psychotherapy groups. or in the effectiveness of the two treatments. Because of these and other similar studies, investigators are starting for the first time to entertain the possibility that cognitive behavior therapy. The methods of cognitive therapy may actually help people by changing the chemistry and architecture of the human brain Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.for example, in several studies patients with  panic attacks have responded as well to cognitive therapy without any medications that many experts now consider cognitive therapy alone to be the best treatment for this disorder.

Cognitive therapy can also be helpful in many other forms of anxiety such as chronic worrying, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. And is also being used with some success in the personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder.

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