Bad reaction from neurofeedback therapy
 

Hello,

I wanted to post here to try to find some feedback and help for what I experienced after my first neurofeedback session.

I have a chemical brain injury & hallucinogen persisting perception disorder from the injury. and in my qeeg it showed significant decrease in alpha activity almost all over my head.

So I went to my first session, I think I trained for 6 minutes and afterwards I felt kinda ok...then I drove home and I noticed I felt very spaced out and tired. When I got home I went to lay down for a while, then throughout the day I experienced extreme agitation, I had mania, I felt very confused and at night I could not sleep. It's been 3 days since my session and I still have this horrible spaced out dissociation feeling!! I am finding it hard to talk to people and form sentences, it's like my body doesn't follow what I'm supposed to do & I feel rlly disorientated...I'm rlly scared that this won't go away :( I have been scared off to go back again for more sessions.

Can anyone out there offer me some help and advice ?? Thank u

missjess,

Welcome to NeuroTalk. When you say you had a neurofeedback session, it leaves us in a quandary. There are many different types and protocols of neurofeedback.

What did you do during the session ? Did you have to look at a computer screen and try to effect a change on the screen or did you just sit and let the system do its thing to your brain ?

What there a specific name of the therapy ? LENS, ROSHI, TENS, Brain Wave Optimization, are such ?

Hi mark, thanks for replying.

Well he had me look at a computer screen for about 6 minutes and I had to make the screen go back to it's normal state. We were doing alpha waves.

Do you know I actually woke up today feeling much better then the past 2 days..
But unfortunately the neurofeedback session has worsened my perception disorder permanently. I believe I won't be going back again.

The neurofeedback you did is the most successful kind with the lowest risk of negative outcomes. I doubt it has caused any kind of long term problems. It may be that you just over did it with the therapy at this point in time.

You should call the neurofeedback therapist and tell them of your experience.

I suggest you try to rest for a few days.

My best to you.