Types of Depression and How EMDR Therapy Works

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Types of Depression and How EMDR Therapy Works on
it

• Psychologist for Depression

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Types of depression
Major Depressive Disorder
Its estimated that 16.2 million adults in the
United States, or 6.7 percent of American adults,
have had at least one major depressive episode in
a given year.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
Persistent depressive disorder, or dysthymia, is
chronic low-level depression thats lower in
severity than major depression and lasts two
years or longer.
Bipolar Disorder
The disorder involves the development of a manic,
or energized mood, episode. Sometimes, these may
be preceded or followed by episodes of
depression. 
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What is EMDR Therapy?

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
  therapy, also known as EMDR Therapy, is a form of
  psychotherapy designed to help people heal from
  extremely traumatic life events.
• EMDR therapy will help reduce the emotional
  distress, panic attacks, anxiety and other
  serious symptoms that most people experience
  after undergoing a disturbing experience in their
  life.

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How EMDR Therapy Works
EMDR therapy is based upon the principles of the
Adaptive Information Processing Model. The Model
posits that we experience an event and feel the
emotions associated with that event and then
store the memory of that event in the brain and
later we can reflect back upon the event with an
objectivity provided by time.
However, when a traumatic event occurs, there is
so much emotion attached to the event that
frequently a person cannot possibly feel and
process all of the emotion in that moment. 
From the safety of the present, EMDR allows a
patient to revisit the past trauma so they can
feel and work through the difficult and
overwhelming emotion stored with the memory
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What makes EMDR Therapy Different?

• EMDR stimulates both hemispheres of the brain to
  assist the patient in marshalling forth their
  full mental capacity to work through their
  issues.
• EMDR not only assists patients in working through
  the difficult emotions that accompany trauma but
  also assists in identifying and correcting the
  negative cognitions that patients frequently tell
  themselves as a result of the trauma.

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How long does EMDR Therapy take?
Meaningful change can often be seen within two to
six therapy sessions for those with a single
episode of trauma.
If the patient has experienced multiple traumas
over their lifetime or has a co-occurring
diagnosis like a substance use disorder or a
dissociative disorder, progress will be slower
depending the amount of trauma experienced and/or
upon on the severity of the co-occurring issues.
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