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Post Traumatic Dating Syndome
On this site yesterday, I acknowledged how the prospect of a blind date makes me want to throw up. As to why, who knows? That is, until I showed the post to William, the blind-dating Maestro, who also happens to be one of L.A.’s finest psychotherapists. He suggested I try EMDR.
EMDR stands for “Eye Movement Disensitization and Reprocessing,” and is considered by leading psychiatric organizations to be an effective treatment for patients with post traumatic stress. Really? Could my response to blind dating be rooted in a horrible incident from the past? EMDR works with bilateral stimulation (as in moving the eye back and forth), whatever that does, and William has been using the technique with his clients for years. I’m excited to try it. Check back shortly for my post-EMDR report.
(Image: The Scream, by Edvard Munch, 1893)
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EMDR works!! My husband who is a counselor has used it on me in the past and it’s just amazing how much relief it gives for such a simple, painless process. I, in turn, used it on a really angry kid in preschool and it worked! I’ll be looking forward to your update.
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I’m really curious to hear how this works for you. I know of it, but last I heard, research hadn’t conclusively proven its effectiveness. So I’m interested to hear whether you notice an improvement from it.
Really, this works?How effective is this?