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Old Mar 26, 2014, 03:34 PM
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Somtimes Psychotic do you have any links on ways to cope with paranoia. i looked on google but they are mediocre
No unfortunately while cbt for psychosis is supposed to deal with all of psychosis it is really weak for paranoia/delusions like you make these pie charts about probabilities and stuff I only really found the meds to be effective for that. I do wonder though if mindfulness meditation would work---its a relatively new thing for sz treatment but its interesting because one of the things it does is when the amygdala fires and send out a fight or flight response it also shuts down your pre-frontal cortex the thinking part of the brain but there is some research that suggests that if you can engage in mindfulness mediation you can keep the pfc active even if you are scared by something so you can just think through it logically instead of being caught up in the fear...I think its worth a shot...I actually have a dvd set of it I'm planning on watching sometime this week so I will update if I find anything helpful...
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