Breathing Retraining in PTSD: A Practical Exercise

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In this video, Dr. Barbara Rothbaum demonstrates breathing retraining, including a description of the relationship between breathing and anxiety.
In this presentation, Dr. Barbara Rothbaum explains the rationale behind breathing retraining, and guides us through a step-by-step exercise.
Here are some highlights we’ve extracted from the video:
* Breathing air in is associated with getting our bodies ready to act, and exhaling is how we tell our bodies it’s okay to relax.
* Hyperventilating produces some of the same bodily reactions which resemble fear.
* This exercise helps to condition relaxation in moments of stress or anxiety.
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9 июл 2024

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@BadddDoggg-id4po 6 месяцев назад

Severe PTSD here. I'm sitting here at work going crazy, feeling like I'm about to jump out of my skin, severe fight or flight with a non stop adrenaline feeling not able to sleep or eat. HOLY COW this works like a charm! At the end of this video all of my bad feelings went away, I actually almost fell asleep. Thank you so much for this!

@cherylwilsherlimberlife7210 3 года назад

The gulping response is the nervous system releasing

@dakshsbhardwaj8007 3 года назад

Thank you very much. I had to sift through hundreds of videos to get here. Few videos had practical exercises. They just talked a lot about the effects of breathing. The other ones just focused on feeling relaxed, but did not give precise instructions as to stressful thoughts. I do not have anxiety, but I do have stressful thoughts from the past overpowering my mind. This exercise should help.

@marcus_ohreallyus Год назад

I've been trying to fix my breathing issues, which are mainly taking short, choppy breaths and subconsciously holding my breath. I find that the only time I can consistently breath perfectly for an extended time is on a walk. I can do slow nasal breaths (about 5 per minute) without missing a single breath on an hour walk. I'm finding that there's been some carry-ever to non-walking time during the day.

@Sharazar.0 2 года назад

Thank you, Dr. Barbara

@emailjlira 3 года назад

Great video on some of the theory behind this. How long before you can condition relaxation? The breathing exercise starts at around 6:25.

@hayleyhoward6580 Год назад

Thanks

@76helpingdogs Год назад

It starts out with pause 2, 3, 4 and then moves on to only a one second pause so it totally changes pace in the middle

@Lkyldyla Год назад

Very calming voice

@GrimFrog90 2 года назад

This is a great concept and I’m definitely going to implement it, I was just wondering should the timing of the exercise be a little slower? I found that by the time I had taken my breath you were already halfway through calm and I couldn’t keep up making me more anxious 😅

@hustlemami8732 2 года назад

This was so weird, my solar plexus started jolting when I did this breathing

@fido5067 2 года назад

Are you trying to kill me? Midway through the breathing exercise you instructed to hold my breath and breathe out saying caaaaaaaalm.... what about breathing in?