Rigid thinking may be a key driver of mental health conditions—and a key intervention point for treatment.
Treatments like hypnosis and psychedelics work to break these patterns and open up new ways of thinking.Many of us have an inner monologue that talks to us throughout our day, commenting on what's going on around us, how we are doing and feeling, and what tasks we need to accomplish.
Another treatment option that is growing in popularity is psychedelics. Leading psychedelic researcher Robin Carhart-Harris, who coined the concept of rigidity, showed that psychedelics reduce activity in the DMN. In studies, the more the DMN shut down during the trip, the more participants experienced"ego dissolution," or the loss of a sense of separateness. Instead, they reported a kind of"oneness" with all that is.
Carhart-Harris theorizes that psychedelics disrupt those well-worn DMN pathways by creating a “hyper-plastic” state in the brain where rapid, profound changes can occur, creating new pathways and ways of being. Psychedelics may be a promising technique to dissolve the iron-clad grip that the DMN has on so many of our lives.
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