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Pat, Home User, Bodega Bay, CA
I'm a non-practicing mental health clinician and a home user who got started with
neurofeedback in an effort to control a seizure disorder that had become resistant to medical interventions. At the time I started, last September, I couldn't walk or sit up without aids and expressing the simplest
need constituted an ordeal. My ability to process directions was at its nadir. The two weeks before I started were spent in ICU medicated into incompetence. I was too impaired to care about potential hazards. All I
wanted was to get my mind back, so I watched the video that came with the product while a friend installed it on my computer. I just copied the SMR protocol and had at it.
The speed of my recovery was
miraculous. Within days I was functioning independently on daily living tasks and ten days into it I wrote an article that impacted the course of local politics. A month later I had hunkered down to finish the novel
I started a few weeks before the crisis. A literary friend just critiqued an early draft of it and assured me it's the best piece I've done yet. I'm off all meds and seizure free now.
It was a matter of luck that the protocol demonstrated on the video happened
to be the one I needed. Had the choices been more complex, I don't know that I could have processed the options adequately, but I
would have found someone who could. As it was, I couldn't access professional help at the time because of logistic considerations.
The device and its accompanying support materials saved me from being placed
in a developmental disability institution where I would have been maintained on drugs that rendered me incompetent. Yes, it probably would have been safer to have the assistance of a professional from the get-go,
but I doubt an ethical one would have had the courage to take on the case. I don't have words to express the depth of my gratitude for independent access to this technology. The value of distance training will
become more apparent as more people gain access. I believe we, patients will benefit from distance training and will shape the development of our care providers' approach.
Healing is a collaborative process that is damaged by the hierarchical
approach to our health care system. The clinicians who are attracted to this
technology will benefit from their patients’ education. The better the tools the
pts. are given, the better able they will be to guide their clinicians to the
source-points of their ills. The guiding light of the clinicians' skill will
be more likely applied where and when it's needed.
Mikki, Home User, New York City
I have been in biofeedback training for some time myself and found it to
be of great benefit. Recently I purchased a BrainMaster and it seems to be simplified and has a good support team, reference materials and now workshop training.
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