u/RemotePerception123

I am doing neurofeedback home training under supervision. Now I am sometimes allowed to do a session every day, but after 2 or 3 days I notice that my head is completely foggy and heavy. I am afraid that this is due to the protocol and that neurofeedback isn't working. Or can you also become overtrained?

I am doing it for insomnia. Or well, it is more the fear that I won't be able to sleep that is causing me to fail. I have high beta central and high alpha frontal. We are training this down on CZ and I have done it on C4 for a week now, but I don't feel any better doing so. On CZ, I noticed very occasionally that falling asleep went well because I didn't have those intrusive thoughts like: I have to sleep, am I falling asleep yet, etc. This lasted for two nights and then stopped. Is that normal? Sleeping through the night is not working yet anyway. I also have low delta, but according to the trainer, that is not the cause.

Eight years ago, insomnia suddenly developed while on vacation, accompanied by anxiety and panic. We were on a group trip, so there was no time to recover, and we had to get out of bed early every morning. I put a lot of pressure on myself during this time, which I have remained stuck in. I have done a lot of therapy and am now doing neurofeedback. First Neuroptimal, where I experienced positive effects, but after a few sessions, those effects disappeared, and I actually felt worse. Now I am doing home training under supervision. I have high beta activity and high frontal alpha on the CZ. We have been training this down on the CZ for four weeks now, five sessions a week, but there is still no stable effect. I have had maybe four nights where falling asleep went well. I still feel grumpy, frustrated, and afraid that things won't get better. We did SMR once with 4-8, 9-12, and 20-30; that made me feel extremely lethargic and slowed down. Then 4-7, 12-15, 20-30, and that went well during the day and I felt good; no effect on sleep yet, but that was after 3 sessions. This one has been taken off again and now I'm only doing high beta/high alpha downtraining on CZ. Sometimes I feel a bit more stable but also heavy in the head. Mostly sad and feeling like nothing works for me🥲 The scores went down in the beginning but after the SMR they are up again. I don't understand it at all. I have been through a lot of trauma. Does anyone have any tips? I have a raw EEG.