Removing Therapy Type Confusion

[mysihba]

Thank you so much Andrew. This helps so much re my post that yesterdays symptoms are today's new disorders ? Ugg...and all the "I think I have....?" I want to post re my experience with EMDR but not here. Need to keep things simple but for those interested I'll try to post in treatments? or somewhere appropriate.

 

[Martin Taylor]

I've been doing EMDR for all of 4 weeks, but I can see a positive response, both to the triggers and my response. I don't talk much while the finger is moving, but afterwords we do talk about it. My emotional responses have been pretty strong. There is some cognitive stuff involved, but it seems to work for me. So I understand it being a cognitive therapy, but it is also more than that. It there a term for limbic-cognitive?

 

[myself]

Acupuncture [...] though the results can and do relieve symptoms.

I didn't know acupuncture might help. that's good to know. I kind of wonder how that might work.

 

[anthony]

Search scholar for acupuncture anxiety and other such terms: http://scholar.google.com

Acupuncture is empirically validated as a treatment, even though science does not fully understand "chi", yet recognise the body does have an electrical energy flowing through it, as it can be measured. Acupuncture taps into that energy to provide specific causes and effects from x points.

I know it works, I know the science proves it works without doubt... but it does not treat anxiety, it only reduces anxiety. Difference...

I used acupuncture myself at times when experiencing the worst of my symptoms, and it worked... even though I didn't believe in prior, the results did prove a reduction and I walked out feeling better.

I had doctors tell me the only way to remove the additional scar tissue on my ankle due to surgery, was more surgery, which produced it in the first place. Irony or what!!! Someone advised me to try acupuncture, a specialist who did that type of acupuncture, was trained in China and extremely good... he reduced my scar tissue by half, just from acupuncture... enough that I no longer required surgery to achieve the same aim, as the doctor stated they would only be able to reduce 50 - 60% overall. Physiotherapists and doctors had resigned themselves to surgery...

I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of acupuncture, but I do accept it has some validity in an additional treatment form for anxiety and depression relief.

 

[myself]

[...] he reduced my scar tissue by half, just from acupuncture... enough that I no longer required surgery to achieve the same aim, as the doctor stated they would only be able to reduce 50 - 60% overall. Physiotherapists and doctors had resigned themselves to surgery...

very cool

 

[bitzer]

There's a lot of research that proves that the type of therapy is irrelevant

 

[anthony]

There's a lot of research that proves that the type of therapy is irrelevant

What do you mean? I have not cited such research in any empirical quantity to derive such a fact.

 

[bitzer]

I said there is research; I didn't suggest you had cited it. I'll dig out the references...

 

[evergreen]

Where does psychotherapy fit into this?

 

[evergreen]

I think I found the answer to my question within the thread. Psycho- means having to do with the conscious and unconscious. Cognitive has to do with retraining the brain.

 

[anthony]

Too many fancy words IMHO in which they attempt to confuse (justify) within the therapeutic industry.

Me personally, depending on the country you live within for terminology, I just like to call it either therapy or counselling. Some use one term, some use the other, some use both.

 

[Mella]

Thank you for being open and honest. I thought I was the only one who literally could not talk about what has happened to me. It really helped to hear I'm not alone.

Thanks, Anthony, for starting this thread. It has definitely educated someone who is just now looking at the ptsd in her life. Before now, the focus has always been on depression and anorexia... now to the root cause of it all--ptsd!