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Tourette’s isn’t a defect – it’s a rebellion. Why dopamine modulators are like manipulating the sun, and what really helps.
The Great Lie of Neuroscience
Tourette's syndrome is considered a neurological disorder caused by a dysfunction of the basal ganglia and a disturbed dopamine balance. But what if that's only half the story?
#brainfunction #dopaminemodulators #exposuretherapy #neuroplasticity #neuroscience #shadowwork #therapeuticapproach
Bearbeitet:
Tourette’s isn’t a defect – it’s a rebellion. Why dopamine modulators are like manipulating the sun, and what really helps.
#brainfunction #dopaminemodulators #exposuretherapy #neuroplasticity #neuroscience #shadowwork #therapeuticapproach
The Great Lie of Neuroscience
Tourette's syndrome is considered a neurological disorder caused by a dysfunction of the basal ganglia and a disturbed dopamine balance. But what if that's only half the story?
Tourette’s isn’t a defect – it’s a rebellion. Why dopamine modulators are like manipulating the sun, and what really helps.
#brainfunction #dopaminemodulators #exposuretherapy #neuroplasticity #neuroscience #shadowwork #therapeuticapproach
The Great Lie of Neuroscience
Tourette's syndrome is considered a neurological disorder caused by a dysfunction of the basal ganglia and a disturbed dopamine balance. But what if that's only half the story? What if Touret
Phobias are not about being irrational or weak.
Your body is reacting as if the threat is still happening, because at some point, that response kept you safe.
Therapy is not about forcing fear away.
It is about helping your nervous system relearn safety, slowly and consistently, so your life can feel bigger again.
If fear has been running the show, support can help you take that space back.
#PhobiaRecovery
#AnxietyTherapy
#NervousSystemHealing
#ExposureTherapy
#MentalHealthSupport
Beating back the demon of agoraphobia isn’t a one-time win—it’s a thousand tiny victories. Provincetown showed me just how far I’ve come. 🌊🗝️ #Agoraphobia #MentalHealth #ExposureTherapy #Resilience #DreamspaceDispatch
The author shares their journey through severe social anxiety and agoraphobia during the pandemic, emphasizing the invisible labor involved in overcoming fears through exposure therapy. Small outings became significant victories, culminating in a trip to Provincetown, symbolizing resilience and personal growth. Progress was marked by transforming anxiety from walls into manageable speed bumps.
Advances in computer vision have opened new avenues for clinical applications, particularly in computerized exposure therapy where visual stimuli can be dynamically adjusted based on patient responses. As a critical step toward such adaptive systems, we investigated whether pretrained computer vision models can accurately predict fear levels from spider-related images. We adapted three diverse models using transfer learning to predict human fear ratings (on a 0-100 scale) from a standardized dataset of 313 images. The models were evaluated using cross-validation, achieving an average mean absolute error (MAE) between 10.1 and 11.0. Our learning curve analysis revealed that reducing the dataset size significantly harmed performance, though further increases yielded no substantial gains. Explainability assessments showed the models' predictions were based on spider-related features. A category-wise error analysis further identified visual conditions associated with higher errors (e.g., distant views and artificial/painted spiders). These findings demonstrate the potential of explainable computer vision models in predicting fear ratings, highlighting the importance of both model explainability and a sufficient dataset size for developing effective emotion-aware therapeutic technologies.
I remember a patient, let’s call her Sarah, who’d start feeling a knot in her stomach right around the time the first plastic pumpkins appeared in stores. #anxietydisorder #CBT #exposuretherapy #fearofHalloween #phobiatreatment #Samhainophobia
#amygdala #anxietymanagement #autonomicnervoussystem #blooddrawfear #bloodwork #brainbodyconnection #cognitivereframing #deepbreathing #exposuretherapy #fearofinjections #fearofshots #fearresponse #healthtips #medicalanxiety #MentalHealth #muscletensiontechnique #needlefear #needlephobia #nervoussystem #overcomingfear #shoulderinjectionpain #stressresponse #trypanophobia #vaccineanxiety #vasovagalresponse
Last call! 😀 🌟 Upcoming Webinar Alert! 🌟
Join CEH and instructor Richard Gallagher, LMFT, for an online continuing education webinar, Treating Contamination #OCD Using the Mastery Approach based on his recent book.
📅 Details & Registration: https://zurl.co/3QhjB
#ContinuingEducation #MentalHealth #ContaminationOCD #Webinar #Anxiety #Exposure #ExposureTherapy #CBT #CBTworks #Therapist #psychologist #socialworker #counselor
🌟 Upcoming Webinar Alert! 🌟
Join CEH and instructor Richard Gallagher, LMFT, for an online continuing education webinar, Treating Contamination #OCD Using the Mastery Approach based on his recent book.
📅 Details & Registration: https://zurl.co/3QhjB
#ContinuingEducation #MentalHealth #ContaminationOCD #Webinar #Anxiety #Exposure #ExposureTherapy #CBT #CBTworks #Therapist #psychologist #socialworker #counselor
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