EMDR is a therapy based on identifying moments when very threatening events happen as we experience intense emotions. These can be events involving life and death, such as happen in war. But they can also be that moment when a child who has wet himself in school feels utter shame.
Events such as these can be one off things, or can be repeated over long periods. The mind learns an intense and simple lesson that can be hard to change. You go on feeling in danger, or that you will be rejected, or that you can't trust yourself long after the event is over. Each time you even start to remember the event/s, you have the same feelings again, feelings such as shame or fear. The event does not go into the past like other memories. It keeps influencing the present.
EMDR is a highly effective way to encourage these memories to go into the past. When this happens, present anxieties can just disappear. There is no longer anything in the mind activating them.
EMDR has a strong base in research evidence and is recommended for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. These days it is also widely used with phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and low mood.
EMDR techniques can also be used to enhance performance and develop confidence. In my experience, out of all therapies, EMDR can produce the most complete and sometimes dramatic changes. It seems to work emotionally with sensations and feelings rather than with argument and words.
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Annie's story is a good account of what can change when EMDR is effective.
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CBT is a therapy based on understanding how things such as anxiety, low mood or phobia happen in the present. It is less interested in why things have happened.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that CBT is ‘one of the most effective treatments for conditions where anxiety or depression is the main problem’
Each of us has our own internal map of how the outside world is and what we can expect of that world. Like any map, it is not exactly the same as the thing it represents. It may have outright mistakes in it too. When we make our maps we are children with a child's way of thinking and understanding. Yet often we don't update these maps, but just go on using them.
What you feel and how you behave are shaped by what kind of map you have got.
CBT aims to help you change the way you think - the cognitive part - and the way you act - the behavioural part. It helps you understand the workings of your own mind, so that you come to be in better control. It gives you your 'owner's manual' for your brain.
CBT teaches you the cognitive approach to understanding feelings, thoughts and behaviours, so you can apply it yourself in your own life.
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Hypnotherapy enables people to enter a trance state. In this state the creative and imaginative parts of the mind become more dominant, the analytical part less so.
A trance state is a normal occurrence in everyday life. When driving a familiar route many people have experienced arriving at their destination with no memory of the journey. The self aware part of their mind had been involved with its own thoughts and dreams, while they were able to drive safely on 'automatic pilot'. This is a trance.
Clinical hypnotherapy usually uses deep relaxation to establish this kind of state. In the trance, people have access to memories and thought processes that they may not have normally. The mind becomes more accepting of what it is told, more suggestible. It is more willing to accept positive messages and instructions without imposing doubt. This makes hypnotherapy and excellent approach for habit based problems such as smoking. However, hypnotherapy can only work with the wishes of a person. It cannot make them do things they do not want to, no matter what seems to happen on TV.
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