Re: Dose Response Relationship & Design Flaws

I've lived with the aftereffects of Vietnam for 18 years because my husband suffered from PTSD. I can't imagine how difficult it must be for him to have had to carry those emotions, aftereffects around for so long. Those effects have been devasting for all of us. He spent years in talk therapy, group, in-patient treatment, etc. etc. etc. with nothing even making a dent. Until EMDR.

I don't care what the research says or doesn't say. I only know I have my husband home from the emotional war he has been battling since I met him. I only know that before EMDR nothing, not love, not science, not tears, nothing, has made a difference, until he started EMDR. To me, that says volumes more than science.

What does concern me is that someone may not try EMDR because of the debate. Because of those poorly designed studies. That someone won't try it because of some political problems amongst the "big boys".

Maybe EMDR is threatening to some clinicians. I don't know . I know a whole lifestyle is dependent on veterans suffering from PTSD. I know a lot of people make a living off their treatment. So, maybe, EMDR is a threat to that.
Maybe some clinicians are afraid that if EMDR is what it says it is, then people will only go to the EMDR clinicians because it works better...I suppose to some therapists, that would be pretty threatening.

I don't know why there is such a political problem over EMDR. I only know it has given me back my husband, given my children back their father, and given my husband back a life he feels is worth living. In the end, thats all that counts...

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Re: Dose Response Relationship & Design Flaws, by Robert P. O'Brien, Ph.D., 2/23/00 To: Vet wife, by , 2/23/00

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