Coping with Emotional Problems
Randolph Nesse discusses the three things that can help someone with an emotional problem: changing the situation, how you think about the situation, and the brain. He advocates for doing whatever works to alleviate suffering, including online cognitive behavioral therapy. Nesse also talks about the emotional toll of COVID-19 and its complications on people's lives. Jordan Harbinger and Nesse also touch on the challenges of diagnosing mental health issues and treating them effectively.In this clip
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377: Randolph Nesse | Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and every time they see the spider or get triggered, they immediately use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
In the episode Stanford Psychiatrist Reveals How Cognitive Therapy Can Cure Your Depression and Anxiety and the clip Perception and Reality, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas by retelling the narrative. He mentions that the whole point of that process is to diminish the physiological response. If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?