So you push EMDR, I have done it
As usual everyone is different
So you're saying EMDR and TF-CBT are the gospel and leading therapies
You need to go back and read what I wrote. What you are interpreting vs what I actually said, very different things. It does say to me, that you can't interpret correctly what is being said. I said, and quote:
The leading one, by consensus, is TF-CBT - EMDR and PE are the following leading treatments, and/or, in combination with TF-CBT. World expert consensus statement within the current Handbook of PTSD: Science and Practice.
Where did I push EMDR? Where did I say TF-CBT is gospel? The leading experts in the world on trauma and related PTSD comorbidities, have concluded based on all evidence available to them that those leading therapies are the most efficacious for treatment of PTSD and its associated trauma. At no stage do those experts mention that complementary modalities are not helpful, in fact they state a combination of therapy types is often the way people heal. Oh, and add DBT which I forgot.
I said exactly what I quoted. Nothing more, nothing less. Stop assuming. Whatever is up with you right now, your ability to process what is clearly written in front of you, extremely skewed.
Most of what you last wrote, I agree with. But at no stage does that mean you should make a statement as you did that PE will fry your brain. Again, what total nonsense. A type of therapy is just a type of therapy. Most of them are CBT based. Implementation is where a therapy becomes good or not, combined with the ability for the patient to accept or reject the modality. Simply put, therapeutic relationship combined with therapist ability.
I remember when EMDR was first mainstream, and it was an epic failure with some disastrous results. Still to this day, no quality study has confirmed eye movement as any positive to the technique, or other stimuli tested in such studies. EMDR is pretty much just exposure therapy done differently.
I thought you would kick my butt off after the last response
Good for you
Here is your problem. You're coming here to, I assume, help yourself, yet you are in essence just wanting to argue, knowing what you're doing will get you kicked from the very site you chose to join. Why join if you want to be disruptive? Stop trying to be an expert, because I can already tell you're far from it. I know I'm no expert, and I've been at this longer than you.
Just because I am new does not mean I am ignorant I am well read and have work exhaustively trying to heal for 12 years
This is amazing, but 12 years does not make you anything special here. I have been at it near 20 years myself, and there are those here who have been at it 30 - 40 years now. Time means little. Some people can solve their trauma in less than a year, some take a lifetime. Some can read well, some can't, for various reasons.
