Neurofeedback Treatment for Anxiety & Panic Attacks in Cary

Using our simple noninvasive qEEG we conduct a brain map by listening to your brainwaves.  In most cases, patients who suffer from anxiety have abnormally high levels of beta brainwaves in the wrong side of the brain, which keep your brain in an alert state.  Though beta brainwaves occur normally in our everyday activity, excessive amounts of these waves cause unnecessary elevated stress levels.  When these excess patterns occur, anxiety and panic attacks are prevalent.

Neurofeedback uses operant conditioning to help guide and reward the brain to a healthier calm state.  By generating the appropriate brain waves, the brain is able to stabilize moods preventing panic attacks and anxiety outbursts.

My son has been dealing with anxiety for 18 years we first noticed it when he was in like 3^rd grade, he would just shut down and stare up into space. He was too overwhelmed with anxiety he would get a test and just write his name on the test and he could not get past number one. So over the years we tried everything.  We’ve done traditional medicine and homeopaths, we’ve done acupuncture, we’ve done coping mechanisms, herbal medicines, supplements, and vitamins.  We’ve been working on it for years and then we heard about neurofeedback and I thought why not we’ve done everything else.  I didn’t know if some lights and looking at TV would somehow magically solve our problem, but he’s gone all summer.  He’s really come out finally, I think what I’ve always seen as a mom.  I knew what he could do, he knew what he could do but, when we would leave the house he just would be seized with anxiety.  When we ran errands we could only do one a day.  He would come home and he would have an upset stomach. He would go to his room and wouldn’t talk.  He was just too overwhelmed with everything.  After neurofeedback he can now run 6 or 7 errands.  He actually volunteers to go get his passport so he’s even willing to consider an international experience, which before we wouldn’t even travel very far because going too far from home would stress him out and he would have panic attacks.  He would stop breathing and get lightheaded.  He wouldn’t want to leave the house.  Now he’s excited about going to college.  I’m excited that he now can make choices based on what he wants to do rather than the side effects his anxiety is going to cause him. – Monica

As with many medical conditions treated by traditional medicine, the default approach to treating anxiety disorders is too often a long and side-effect-heavy prescription drug plan.  The overuse of anti-anxiety medication is helping to fuel the epidemic of overdose deaths related to prescription drug use in the United States.  The American Journal of Public Health reports that overdose deaths involving anti-anxiety drugs rose 429% between 1996 and 2013 (3.07 per 100,000 adults in 2013, up from 0.58 per 100,000 adults in 1996).

Neurofeedback, which is 100% drug free and offers patients an opportunity to treat their anxiety and panic attacks without the concern of creating additional health risks.