Troubling thoughts have a way of repeatedly intruding into our lives, but just such an event sparked the development of a new therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is now offered as a treatment option for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Exposure to a traumatic event, whether or not the individual is directly involved, can lead to a state known as Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). The symptoms associated with ASD are, acute stress, amnesia, detachment, depersonalization and derealization. These symptoms, collectively known as dissociative reactions, will tend to occur during the... Read more
People who are vulnerable to anxiety tend to go through a particular set of routines when they enter a potentially intimidating situation. Rather like tuning a radio, they scan rapidly and broadly in order to identify possible threats. These potential threats are then tuned into and the ‘volume' is turned up in terms of their heightened... Read more
Despite a statement by the World Health Organization (WHO) that a flu pandemic is not inevitable, levels of tension across the globe are increasing. The WHO recently revised its alert level to four, just two short of a pandemic, and the effects are being seen in the already stretched financial markets. Both the Dow Jones and Nasdaq have reported... Read more
We live in, "a culture of fear", fuelled by politicians, social policy and the media. These are just some of the findings to emerge from, In The Face Fear, a report published by the Mental Health Foundation, a UK charity. Of the 2,200 adults polled, 77 per cent saw the world as a more frightening place than 10 years ago. Government figures also... Read more
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