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Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a powerful new therapy showing high levels of success in overcoming a variety of problems. The results are long-lasting.
Problems typically treated:
- post traumatic stress disorder
- phobias
- panic attacks
- performance anxiety
- anxiety disorders
- disturbing memories associated with sexual and physical abuse
- complicated grief
- alcohol and drug addictions
- eating disorders
No one knows exactly how EMDR works. It is known however that when a person experiences a traumatic event their brain cannot process information the way it normally does. One moment becomes "frozen in time" and remembering a trauma may feel as bad as going through it the first time because the images, sounds, smells and feelings have not changed. Such memories have a lasting negative effect on the way a person sees the world and relates to other people that interfere with he or her life.
EMDR seems to be similar to what occurs during dream or Rapid Eye Movement sleep. EMDR unlocks the memory of the trauma and allows it to be processed in a more adaptive way. What happened is still remembered but it is less upsetting.