Biofeedback treatment of Mixed Anxiety Depressive disorder: A case report

Abstract

Biofeedback is a treatment used for training patients to improve their health by using signals from their own body. It helps those patients who are tense and anxious and makes them relax. Research has shown that biofeedback, alone and in combination with other behavioral therapies, is effective for treating a variety of medical and psychological disorders, ranging from headache to hypertension to attentional disorders. It guides the individuals to facilitate the learning of voluntary control over body and mind, and take a more active role in maintaining personal health and higher level mind-body wellness. Biofeedback is based on the recognition that changes in the mind and emotions affect the body, and changes in the body also influence the mind and emotions. Biofeedback underscores educating individuals to become aware and increase control over their nervous system, brain, and body, and improve flexibility in physiologic responding. Feedback training has the positive effect of improving performance, learning and health.