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Hi there.
I had attempted to begin training for Gupta about five years ago for CFS, but at the time could not adequately distract myself to benefit. I am looking into brain retraining again after seeing a video of Gupta's pop up in my Facebook feed. This is looking promising to me. Question though...Im still unclear after the video why it is that after experiencing a stressful state (such as through an infection, an emotionally challenging time, etc), that some folks' amygdala's react in such a hyperactivated way and begin the chronic loop of hyperactived nervous and immune response (fight or flight). I get that what ends up happening is that the amygdala and insula are essentially stuck in fight/flight and reacting to anything that reminds the brain of a threat to survival is what keeps this hyperactivation going (ie - its self perpetuating without brain retraining). But what Im not clear on is *why* some of us react to common (even if substantial) stress in a seriously hyperactive way, while other folks might simply have a more normal response to stress (ie - the sympathetic NS kicks in for a while, then eventually parasympathetic kicks back in again). I could certainly see how something like a vaccine, which provides a seemingly unnatural chronic exposure to a potential threat to survival could set the amygdala in overdrive, or even how toxic chemicals we did not evolve with could cause kindling, but I don't get how simply getting a virus and having some strong emotional stress going on would cause the wisdom of our bodies to go so overreactive as to set us in chronic activation state. Oh and I get how genetics and the way we were raised play a role...I get that. But still, im not quite getting how a simple infection and some emotional stress would cause our body/brain wisdom to so thoroughly be unwise in its hyperactivation.
Thanks for any help on this!
I had attempted to begin training for Gupta about five years ago for CFS, but at the time could not adequately distract myself to benefit. I am looking into brain retraining again after seeing a video of Gupta's pop up in my Facebook feed. This is looking promising to me. Question though...Im still unclear after the video why it is that after experiencing a stressful state (such as through an infection, an emotionally challenging time, etc), that some folks' amygdala's react in such a hyperactivated way and begin the chronic loop of hyperactived nervous and immune response (fight or flight). I get that what ends up happening is that the amygdala and insula are essentially stuck in fight/flight and reacting to anything that reminds the brain of a threat to survival is what keeps this hyperactivation going (ie - its self perpetuating without brain retraining). But what Im not clear on is *why* some of us react to common (even if substantial) stress in a seriously hyperactive way, while other folks might simply have a more normal response to stress (ie - the sympathetic NS kicks in for a while, then eventually parasympathetic kicks back in again). I could certainly see how something like a vaccine, which provides a seemingly unnatural chronic exposure to a potential threat to survival could set the amygdala in overdrive, or even how toxic chemicals we did not evolve with could cause kindling, but I don't get how simply getting a virus and having some strong emotional stress going on would cause the wisdom of our bodies to go so overreactive as to set us in chronic activation state. Oh and I get how genetics and the way we were raised play a role...I get that. But still, im not quite getting how a simple infection and some emotional stress would cause our body/brain wisdom to so thoroughly be unwise in its hyperactivation.
Thanks for any help on this!