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EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapeutic approach designed to help individuals recover from distressing experiences and the effects these events can have on their daily lives. It can be particularly effective in treating anxiety, especially following difficult life events. When a person experiences trauma, they may feel overwhelmed, and their brain might find it challenging to fully process what has occurred.
'Old disturbing memories can be stored in the brain in isolation; they get locked into the nervous system with the original images, sounds, thoughts and feelings involved. The old distressing material just keeps getting triggered over and over again. This prevents learning/healing from taking place. In another part of your brain, you already have most of the information you need to resolve this problem; the two just can't connect. Once EMDR starts a linking takes place. New information can come to mind and resolve the old problems. This may be what happens spontaneously in REM or dream sleep when eye movements help to process unconscious material.' (directly taken from the EMDR transcript from EMDR works).
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