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Originally Posted by whimsygirl
Good morning ~afternoon ~evening....Something I'm investigating after my therapist made me aware of it. Just read this article, found it to be interesting, and thought I'd pass it along in case anyone's interested. There are also videos about neuroplasticity on YouTube. (There are many, personally I recommend the ones by Rick Hanson.) Hope everyone's doing okay, or aiming for it anyway  Gotta keep trying ~whimsy Overcoming Depression Through Neuroplasticity |
Very good article. Thanks, Whimsy. I've been interested in a way to "rewire" my brain for a while. As the article says, repetitive mind exercises are supposed to help do this. I mentioned before one of the books I was reading, written by a psychiatrist who had his own bouts of clinical depression. He says:
Previously, I was out on a scientific limb in arguing that the “skills of depression” — the habits that make it so hard for us to recover — are essentially neural pathways that can be replaced by more effective ways of living. Now the new neuroscience has confirmed that is indeed what happens in the brain; old pathways wither when we stop our habits, to be replaced by new connections that are learned through changes in our behavior. We can change our own brains through focused attention and practice.
(Above copied from his book "Undoing Depression")