Larry, I think sometimes it helped just to talk to someone about it. Someone who had no pre-conceived notions about me or the situation.
But for the most part I agree, for really bad, heinous shit, just talking probably won't do much. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Larry Lyons<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> 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:301581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
