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It's a simple conversation under the most complex of circumstances

during brain surgery. Serena Kelly is the first patient in

Canada to receive a procedure known as deep brain stimulation for

treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD.

Sunnybrook surgeons guided by her brain images have inserted two electrodes deep

into her brain targeting the precise areas causing her PTSD. By talking her

through a series of questions they make sure they've hit their target.

These electrodes will eventually be controlled by this pacemaker-like device.

It will be implanted during the second part of the surgery and will send ongoing electrical

stimulation to the affected parts of her brain, hopefully easing her symptoms.

For decades, Serena has lived with the dark and debilitating effects of PTSD.

She says she has survived multiple sexual assaults, an abusive long-term

relationship, and most recently, the loss of her daughter Harley in a motorcycle

collision. So that was very traumatic and has caused a lot of

a lot of very intense symptoms. Living with PTSD, I feel is like being in

a prison almost. I can't do the things that I want to do. I don't have a life.

Other treatments offered no relief but that's where deep brain stimulation

comes in, says Dr. Nir Lipsman, the principal investigator of a new

Sunnybrook-led study looking at the safety of deep brain stimulation for

patients like Serena. Over the last 20 years or so we've been learning much

more about psychiatric conditions. Things like depression and obsessive-compulsive

disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. We're starting to realize that

those symptoms of those conditions are driven by circuits in the brain that we

can access with these electrodes. It's estimated more than three million

Canadians are currently living with PTSD, a crippling mental illness that can

occur after abuse, disasters, accidents, or military combat. Approximately one-third

are treatment resistant, meaning possible new options like deep brain stimulation

are critically needed. Dr. Lipsman says it will likely take months to gauge

how the treatment is working. This first phase of the study will

include an additional four patients who will be followed for one year. With eight

grandchildren and three surviving children, Serena says she wants to be

there for them. I hope that at least the bigger symptoms go away.

I do hope this does work, not just for me, but for for others, to give them hope.

With Sunnyview, I'm Monica Matys.

For more infomation >> A possible new treatment for PTSD - Duration: 3:14.

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Online treatment for anxiety attacks via Skype - Duration: 16:05.

Welcome!

My name is Peter Strong.

I'm a professional online therapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of

anxiety, including panic attacks and other anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia and

social anxiety disorder that benefit from Mindfulness Therapy.

So I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy which is a system of work that I have developed

over the last 10 to 12 years now that is proving very effective indeed for helping people overcome

anxiety and panic attacks.

So if you're looking for online treatment for panic attacks then I encourage you to

read more on my website and please feel free to contact me with any questions that you

may have and when you feel ready we can schedule a Skype Therapy session.

So Skype Therapy for panic attacks is very convenient, of course, means you can have

your sessions at home without having to travel to a therapist's office.

And Often for anxiety disorders in general the online format is typically much more comfortable

for you much less intimidating, much less clinical in nature.

So Mindfulness Therapy is not a clinical approach to treating anxiety or depression.

It's a system that teachings, it's a way of giving you practical methods that you can

develop and apply yourself for overcoming anxiety and panic attacks.

So one of the most important methods that I will teach you is how to change the relationship

that you have with your anxiety.

This is really quite important.

So from a mindfulness psychology viewpoint anxiety is regarded as a habit, a psychological

habit, rather than an illness or a disorder.

So the real problem with anxiety is that these habits become established and they operate

automatically out of consciousness.

And the first training in Mindfulness Therapy is restoring consciousness so that you develop

a very conscious non-reactive relationship with your anxiety, with your emotions.

This is quite important.

You really cannot expect those habits to change until you develop a conscious relationship

with them.

So the way we do this is by, quite surprisingly perhaps, choosing to meditate on the anxiety

or other emotions.

We make them the object of meditation.

This means that we focus a great deal of conscious awareness on the emotion itself.

We might play through a scene in the mind where the anxiety may be triggered.

But then we work with that anxiety, restoring consciousness.

So that means that you can observe the anxiety or any other emotion without becoming reactive,

without becoming identified with that emotion, without becoming consumed by it, or overwhelmed

by it, or lost in all of the related reactive thoughts that tend to feed anxiety and panic

attacks.

So that's a very important part of the training.

Learning to sit with your emotions without becoming consumed by them.

Then, when you have established that conscious relationship, then you can begin to change

the emotion itself.

We can help it heal.

So that's the second primary theme in Mindfulness Therapy is teaching our emotions how to heal

themselves.

It's about healing.

One of the most important requirements for healing is that conscious relationship itself.

In essence you become like a parent to the anxiety, which is like a child.

It's a conscious relationship and it's also based on love or friendliness, with an interest

in the anxiety and helping it heal.

So that relationship gets fractured during anxiety disorders.

We say there is a disconnect between your True Self and the emotion.

That's like separation between the parent and the child, and then the anxiety becomes

isolated and it just becomes a source of reactivity, and it cannot heal without that connection

with your larger and higher True Self.

So that's what we established during meditation on the emotion.

We re-establish the relationship between your True Self, which is the Observer, and the

anxiety, which is the object observed in your meditation.

So that relationship is fundamentally important for healing, as it would be for a child that

was in pain.

It needs to reconnect with his parent with consciousness and love in order for the child

to discover how to heal its own pain.

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So the way that we help the emotion heal is also depending on working with the imagery

of the emotion.

So any emotion has associated imagery, that's what really keeps that emotion operating in

the mind.

And when we are meditating on the emotion we want to explore this imagery, because when

you change the imagery of an emotion the emotion heals, it changes.

So we look at the position of the image of the emotion, that's really important.

So many people experience the anxiety in the body in the throat or the chest, that's quite

a common position, and that's part of its structure, that's part of its imagery.

It needs to be in that place in order to create the emotional distress of anxiety or panic

attacks.

So when we see his position we then start to explore moving it.

And this is a very, very effective approach to working with anxiety and panic attacks,

particularly, which are simply a very intense form of anxiety.

When you can learn to see the anxiety clearly as an object and then move it from its habitual

position in the chest or the throat, or wherever it might be, to a new position, typically

outside of the body, that movement is a very important part of the healing process for

the emotion.

It has to move.

It has to change its position, and you can help it do that through meditation.

That's a primary function of meditation is to facilitate healing.

That's the primary purpose of meditation.

But we can also work with other components of the imagery of the anxiety such as its

color or its size.

What color is it?

This is something that is really important.

Most people find that the color of the best resonates with their anxiety is usually red

or orange and that color is part of its structure.

It has to have the color in order to create the feeling of anxiety.

But it is all habit based.

Now when we bring conscious mindfulness to the emotion we can investigate its color and

we can begin to change his color.

Because when you have consciousness you always bring with that consciousness choice.

You can begin to explore changing things.

They are no longer in the habit realm.

So we explore changing the color.

Make the anxiety blue or green or any color that feels right.

Explore what feels right, what helps that anxiety heal.

We look at its size.

Clearly if it is very intense the emotion must be very large.

So again its size is a product of habit.

It simply takes on the form that is very large, with that certain color and certain position

out of habit.

So the size we can change.

You can shrink an emotion down.

You can make it as small as you need to make it, and you experiment and you explore what

happens when you shrink the emotion.

Make it as small as a grain of sand.

See how that affects the intensity of the anxiety or panic.

So there are many other components like that in the imagery of the emotion that we can

work with quite effectively using Mindfulness Therapy.

If you would like to learn more about how to work with your panic attacks and anxiety

using mindfulness, then please reach out to me by e-mail.

Contact me and let schedule a Skype Therapy session.

So I see lots and lots of people who suffer from panic attacks and anxiety in general,

and this approach is very effective.

And most people see quite substantial improvements within just a few sessions.

It is much better than using medications.

Medications will do absolutely nothing to change that underlying habitual process that

causes your anxiety and panic attacks.

It only provides a temporary relief from symptoms, and we want to do better than that.

We want to change the underlying cause of your anxiety, and that cause is, as I said,

primarily a function of imagery and with the relationship that you have with the emotion

itself.

So when you correct both of those things you produce very effective change in the anxiety

and you will help it heal very quickly.

When you have shown the anxiety how to heal itself by changing its imagery and by creating

that parent-child type relationship with it, then that becomes a new habit.

It becomes automatic and the anxiety can heal itself once that new positive habit has been

established.

That's what's so nice about this approach.

It's basically learning how to help your emotions heal and how to develop what we call resolution

pathways that help them heal by themselves.

And it's very, very effective.

So if you'd like to learn more, please contact me.

Tell me more about yourself and your needs and let's schedule a session.

You'll see for yourself in the first session just how effective the Mindfulness Therapy

approach can be.

And it's one of the most enjoyable ways of working with emotions in general.

It unleashes a lot of energy that gets trapped in those contracted emotions like anxiety

and panic or depression, as well.

So if you would like to get start with me please contact me.

Thank you.