LMAO
@Florian7051
it just didn't do much for me, at least not any more than PE.
PE (prolonged exposure therapy) & EMDR are both
- Forms of Exposure Therapy
- Tier 1 Treatments
- Highly evidence based with huge success rates
Essentially? You're saying that the Lotus was no better than the Ferrari. :roflmao:
Snake Oil & Hocus Pocus? Would be the Pinto or LeCar. Or maybe a Hollywood prop-car that doesn't even have an engine, is just used in front of green screen. ;)
Interestingly enough? You can get the same effect of EMDR by having your exposure therapy whilst walking in the woods. Which was how we were taught in school that it was accidentally discovered. Dr. Shapiro noticed that the clients she took outside to walk in the woods behind her office processed their traumas about a zillion times faster and far more completely than clients she did trauma therapy with purely in her office. There were a bunch of theories why, including that for some reason the eyes having to change their depth field (ground, different distances between trees, etc.) altered the way the brain processed and stored other information that was happening at the same time. EMDR is -essentially- creating the same effect, indoors. WHY the visual cortex being stimulated in such a way causes that effect? As far as I know, we don't know. Same as we don't know why it also causes headaches/nausea whilst hiking (or driving), or why caffeine works better on those changing-depth visual-field induced headaches better than analgesics. Brains. Quirky things!
@teneighty No therapy works for everyone, much less works best for everyone. I'm another person who loooooooves PE (prolonged exposure), but can't do EMDR (eye movement desensitization & reprocessing)... Although, oddly, I can process /and process better & faster/ while hiking or driving... But I also know how effective EMDR is for most people (and it's origins).
