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@Silverspoon Thank you. I hope it's helpful.

Anyone have experience treating CPTSD with Neurofeedback?

I'm new here and have been successfully benefiting from Neurofeedback. Curious if there are any others and what your experiences have been with Neurofeedback with CPTSD.

Thanks!

Your share resonates with me most definitely. I've recently started neurofeedback. I can confidently say it's changing my life for the better. Neurofeedback doesn't require any story telling or even belief that it works. The premise is that all brains are not alike. There are biological differences of which some carry a diagnoses. When speaking to trauma, the brain is injured and altered by traumas. Those suffering from or managing CPTSD have experienced traumas in childhood and perhaps well into later ages. The brain autonomously manages, survives the trauma using strategies that result in CPTSD. In doing this, some parts of the brain are never developed or are highly over developed. When we experience the symptoms of CPTSD or PTSD, Anxiety, Panic Disorder, OCD and so on, the part of the brain that is responsible for flight or fight is highly developed, overly developed. The parts of our brain that help regulate or is responsible for executive thinking is not developed or under developed. Using an QEEG Brain Scan a map of the brain is generated. This scan measures 50-55 parts of the brain. The scan reveals what parts of the brain are not working at optimal levels as well as what parts are responsible for your symptoms. With neurofeedback you can train the parts of the brain that are under developed or weren't developed at all. Like a muscle these parts of the brain start to grow in function so much so that the overly developed parts of the brain can take a back seat bringing your brain back into balance. Some people report being cured of CPTSD or PTSD entirely. My doctor explained that she would never use the word cure however she would say, your quality of life will drastically improve for the better.

An example, pre-neurofeedback you walk into a room with 20 triggers (could be identifiable triggers or subconscious triggers), you have an experience. After neurofeedback you walk into the same room, same triggers and you aren't bothered by the triggers. I can attest to experiencing this result myself. It's kinda unbelievable to me in some way still. I'm still processing the benefits. I can also share that I've had neurofeedback after spending 5 days and nights in complete terror, not able to eat, suspicious thoughts, believing on some level I may have come to the end and after one powerful session, these symptoms diminished greatly. I was able to eat, the panic stopped, I could sleep and the suspicious thoughts were no longer present. I'm able to leave my house still anticipating anxiety and there is very little to be found. It's not gone although lessoned to a manageable place.

Hope this share is helpful!