Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treated without Medication – John Severe OCD since 4th GradeJohn was a very bright young fellow who was heading off to an Ivy League university in the fall. He was suffering from very severe OCD since 4th grade. He had tried Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, however it didn’t help. He refused exposure and response prevention therapy. Eventually, his OCD became so severe that he refus...
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I know that this is going to be a pretty unbelievable read, but it is true.The bottom line is this. For the past 10 years, I have had recurring tendonitis, which inhibited my ability to work-out with weights, and eventually forced me to stop playing guitar. One day, for a reason that is unknown to me, I decided to go gluten free. None of my tests had been positive, but I decided to give it a shot. Lo and behold...
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1. What is mindfulness in the context of arthritis pain as well as other forms of pain? What is its importance to patients with chronic conditions? mindfulness is a state of mind which enables one to step back and simply observe, without judgment, how one’s mind, and body are behaving at the moment. As a consequence, one can separate pain-a purely physiological response to a noxious stimulus, from the suffer...
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Many people would be surprised that the immune system, the gastro-intestinal tract and stress interact, but that is what the most recent of a number of studies shows. In this study on mice, (Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Volume 25, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 397-407. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040780) researchers demonstrated that psychological stress causes almost immediate changes to the gut bacter...
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