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that i get nightmares to war i don't have any idea why they go. after repeated attempts at getting professional help she met psychologist covered in marks dick they've met once a week for the past year now she understands where the nightmares came from. thomas and toy. nightmares are dreams characterized by strong negative emotions and the nightmares we process feelings that we can't cope with in our daily lives simply because they're too intense and one treatment for not with is called i movement integration or am i i'm no longer alone i'm no longer alone. the patient watches the pain while hearing certain words. the entire surface of the patient's brain is activated by targeted movements that means all memory node experiences get activated so that you can then link the traumatic event to those memories and then the brain can find solutions all by itself. in the.
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writing down her daily experiences has also helped to deal with her nightmares. more for what i write down 5 positive and 5 negative things how they made me feel and what i did in response then i've written them out of my head. the 32 year old has finally come to grips with her past so what are his dreams like now i was very good very nice tree so. if you have a fear of flying a virtual reality trip with a therapist might help you get over it you stay on the ground but it feels like you're in the air it's cold confrontation there. every day activities that can be stressful such as shopping walking in a crowd or using public transport bearable for millions with anxiety disorders
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often getting therapy is the only way to cope with the distress they experience but what can they do if even getting to the therapist presents an insurmountable sigh. a question that brothers union and. along with their business partner benedict have long thought about. bringing a lot of business to a few people realize that anxiety disorders are germany's top mental illness affecting about $10000000.00 people each year. and about 5000000 people in this category have a primary diagnosis such as agrah phobia social phobia or panic disorder what up. with this start ups impatient they've developed a form of digital psychotherapy it's still a smartphone and factual reality goggles if some patient the idea for sim patients and for inverted therapy came from a clinical pilot study with very promising results the idea developed that we could
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make this easily accessible by using virtual reality via smartphones instead of relying on large scale systems patients won't be left to fend for themselves they're assigned their own certified psycho therapist companies them throughout the entire paradigm because on the top of the university medical center. is the clinical partner for their v.a.r. therapy to the digital therapy is seen as promising this is the ep. the 1st of many on. which conduct exposure therapy that is exposing the patient to the trigger situation with the a differential reality. that. we know from experience and from many experiments that these virtual situations work almost as well as when the patient is exposed to a real life situation. that is the situation may not be real but the experience is real and that's what matters. for many sufferers
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virtual therapy is one possible path towards an anxiety free life. the phone. and the obvious thing is to answer it more young people are showing away from talking on the phone. prefer texting but for some it's an anxiety telephone a phobia. smartphones have completely changed how we communicate with each other while in the past teenagers would have called their friends now they prefer to message them. thank you or telephone after the phone calls are so immediate you get confronted with a question and you have to want to straight away. whereas with e-mail you have time to think things through and you can make changes to what you've written something you can't do you want to call it then see if it's just a question or if i just want to brief exchange with someone i tend to write because
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then they can answer me when they have time. if the conversation is one that could become a bit unpleasant messaging helps avoid that and often beat you. play on merit or not alone according to a study into media use among young people just one 5th of those aged between 12 and 19 use their mobile phones to make calls. instead they sent text messages. some of even developed a telephone phobia psychologist barbara schmidt. said it feeling of embarrassment. yes when there's an silence or if i don't know the answer to a question. it's some presence. barber schmidt research is anxieties and hypnosis at the university of you know she
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believes that simple hypnosis techniques can help with telephone call anxiety. you take the telephone in your hand in the number hold it up to you if i do all these actions can trigger a feeling that can be anchored through transfer example. i can say that everything will go smoothly and this feeling then becomes connected to every single one of those actions and those actions then trigger the feeling that things will go well it works brilliantly and it's so simple practice that it. lay on merit like the idea and hope it will help them choose to make telephone calls more often in future you're. a. good shake your weekly health show on t w covers many aspects of health care we look at what's new in medical treatment nutrition fitness and beauty. we talk about these topics in depth with experts and give you the chance to post your own questions so do get in touch.
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there are various approaches to treating fears anxiety and pain and success is not always guaranteed researchers are currently exploring whether sniffing sense can prove beneficial their findings are intriguing. sense otis smells accompany our everyday lives we can't see hear or touch them but they are very present and they influence how we feel. being is living with the smell is a deeply emotional sense that's what fascinates me the smell operates in the background. as well as for a long time it wasn't properly appreciated many patients say you any notice how important the sense of smell is once you lose it yes. thomas homer is a physician and special in smell. and his research has found that sense
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can help in the management of certain diseases because of the direct link between nose and brain. the senses reach the all factory cells a very short distance from the our factory baldwin which is part of the brain from there information is passed to brain areas that have a lot to do with memory and emotion. dr and she haina is also a specialist in smell she and thomas homer conducted a study of center memory with 100 elderly patients the question they wanted to answer was does regular small training enhance cognitive capacities. we don't have money when we compared small training and playing sudoku it's now training did much better with respect to commission for example in these patients their speech became more fluent about them. smells enter the know where they are up to
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30000000 off the tree cell 1. if they register a scent molecules say the nether pine or leavened they pounce on the information to the brain to the limbic system which is associated with emotion. and to the hippocampus which is associated with memory. there is a direct path from the nose to the brain that's why the sense of smell is like a key that opens up faults of memory and emotion. the scent of a biscuit dunked in teen triggers a flood of memories. one sniff of a certain detergent and when it's transported back to childhood. sense can engender a feeling of contentment that power can be harnessed to help people with mental issues. studies suggest that smell training helps some deal with nightmares and
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sleep disorders. we have now. we conducted a study with patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder they had horrible nightmares and slept wholly we exposed some to scents during the night it turned out they slept better and had fewer nightmares than those who just breathed regular air. brainwave patterns indicate that smell is registered by the brain that is true of pain as well could smell training help treat pain. we see how scents affect the moods and emotions and how they affect cognition specifically attention and concentration these things all play a role in pain as well i'm sure manson on the. sense link could nation and emotion thinking and feeling the 2 sense scientists contacted good on cost of pain
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expert so they could explore possible connections between the sense of smell and perception of pain a woman's need does the old factory pathways are directly connected to neural nodes in the brain that are important for the perception and evaluation of pain. consider how intense you feel or pain to be about can you perhaps influence that perception by means of sense. of this migraine patients lives the sense of cloves peach orange and lavender containing these files every morning and evening as part of a study. another study already completed with back pain patients yielded interesting results. i want to underline that one thing we investigated was how intense the pain feels a tiny particular moment we gave the test subjects an electrical stimulus and asked them to evaluate how painful it was what we found was that off to small training pain felt less intense than before patients tolerated more pain and me out of the.
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pleasant sense as a way to combat pain dr gosnell's says her patients seem to appreciate this gentle therapeutic approach. as soon as i get massage and i was somewhat surprised by our findings the pilot study looked at quite a small number of patients but the results were none the less clear i was also surprised that patients wanted to carry on after the study was completed by tomorrow what sense own and tends out more influential than one might think and a walk in the woods is also an aromatic adventure that is good for body and so. that's all for today's edition of in good shape good bye for now and see you next week.
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