Revolutionising mental health diagnosis and treatment with Polyvagal Theory

Mon Sep 5 07:03:31 BST 2022

Professor Stephen Porges discusses his groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory and its profound implications for physical and mental health

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Conventional mental health treatment manages the symptoms rather than treating root causes of mental health issues. Functional medicine psychiatry seeks to treat the root causes behind these symptoms, whether they are biochemical (hormone imbalances, gut issues, toxic load, inflammation, infections) or psycho-spiritual (adverse childhood experiences, trauma) or both. But what comes first? Do depression, anxiety, insomnia generally come from biochemical imbalances or psycho-spiritual ones? According to the legendary Professor Stephen Porges, biochemical imbalances are the downstream effects of the real root cause of all mental health issues: a dysregulated nervous system, which itself is caused by a chronic physiological state of stress (fight, flight, freeze). Interestingly, this physiological state of stress can be caused by biochemical issues (such as a toxin or a pathogen) and/or psycho-spiritual ones (such as childhood trauma). The body responds to both with the same threat reaction.

In the latest episode of The MindHealth360 Show (https://cBz2J04.na1.hubspotlinksstarter.com/Ctc/W0+113/cBz2J04/VWlXtJ7lpLnBW6Mtx5H94fvf4W56dvtZ4PzGYtN7xs-wQ3l0fQV1-WJV7CgKnMW15RlNV52dchjW2qgyHh70JWrfVvVCYT5dmyqZN8Dvs2FVLYt2W363y_Q6fmzCKW59Dt_y3D_pZSW2dj0qY3M-lWmN21yqBSWc7WWW7nxnJn9h0PF2V5hRY_7tV7Q-W93zLSF82RKqgN3Xl-rQSLmPSW3n2tbL6Yk_lVW3HpGkv2_FN57W7bFCrs8XCBn-W7Qkgqb36Yd6nW8Q6zWR59XZSGW1yWNsP5nXb07N1Sw_nljFdSJW6ytvcH7dNH5dW6W-4J82MYWRdW8K_ms787-kMQVY7w6q4P5KnbW9lvKvk1WpYJD3h4h1 ) , Professor Porges, who after years of scientific research has developed a deep understanding of the vagus nerves and their role in mental health, discusses his groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory and its implication for mental health diagnosis and treatment, as well as his latest book, “Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation”.

He shows that the syndromes we call depression, anxiety, insomnia, poor attention, irritability, exhaustion, as well as many physical health conditions, have in common a disordered response to stress, or nervous system dysregulation, which he defines as being in a chronic state of sympathetic arousal or dorsal vagal shut down, neither of which are conducive to health, growth and repair – a state facilitated instead by the social engagement system, or ventral vagal nerves. He shows that mental and physical health comes from homeostatic flexibility – the ability to go between states of fight, flight, freeze and social engagement, appropriately and with ease, and shows us how to promote this healthier state in our lives.

Revolutionising mental health diagnosis and treatment with Polyvagal Theory

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In this interview, learn about:

- The therapeutic applications of Polyvagal Theory, and how it has revolutionised our understanding of mental health and trauma
- How Polyvagal Theory helps us move from seeing mental health as a function of the brain and its activity to a function of the body (gut, heart, visceral organs, nerves) and its different physiological states
- How poor mental and physical health come from the chronic disruption of homeostatic function and an inability to switch easily and quickly between states of threat (fight, flight, freeze) and social engagement (necessary for health, growth and repair)
- How Polyvagal Theory explains why we are particularly drawn to certain people and not to others
- How childhood adversity reprograms our autonomic nervous system and can cause a dysregulated nervous system, which in turn can make us more susceptible to pathogens such as viruses and bacteria, and to toxins
- How Polyvagal Theory fits into the functional medicine paradigm
- Why some people can experience a traumatic event in their childhood and find it more dysregulating than others experiencing the same event
- Why it’s essential to listen to what our body is trying to tell us rather than numb it out, run from it, or rationalise it
- The relative success of body-based versus cognitive psychological therapies; the importance of the physiological state of the therapist; and the effectiveness of therapy for healing the therapist as well as the patient
- How to measure the state of the nervous system and neural exercises to heal it
- How to practise healthy social engagement if you are a loner and other people drain you
- The role of busyness in our societies and our nervous systems, why some people find stillness threatening, and what to do about it
- The effects of technology on our nervous systems and why size of screen matters for nervous system regulation
- The biochemical effects of vagal tone on inflammation, heart rate and gut function
- The importance of compassion for healing, and why it’s more effective than empathy

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