>> Sometimes the shit you see in that job >> (and others like police, fire fighter, etc) just hangs on and no >> amount of therapy (or drugs, alcohol, etc) will make it go away. > >But therapy can help reduce the stress it causes. > >Seriously, if you're experiencing PTSD symptoms, check out EMDR. It helps.
I'm very skeptical how some hand waving and eye moving can change some deep seated responses to traumatic events. I have yet to see a good quantitative review of the issue or a very definitive well controlled experiment that used placebos and random assignment. The ones I've seen so far have had a very strong allegiance to the so called therapy. The ones that have done clinical comparisons to other therapies, such has CBT have found it to be at best only equivalent to more established therapies that have an empirical track record. One large scale meta analysis found that Cognitive Behavior Therapy to superior to EMDR, http://tinyurl.com/emdrBaywood. In fact some have suggested that EMDR works through simple exposure and that the eye movement just serves to distract and calm the individual while they are cognitively re-exposing themselves to the traumatic event, http://tinyurl.com/emdrLeeEtAl2006. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:301572 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
