I tried it once and it drove me batty. Basically EDMR is first talking with a therapist to find out what the problems are That part I had no porblem with.

The next step was nuts
Tapping on my forhead while repeating the affirmation - This will no longer bother me, and click click of my tongue
at the same time as moving my eyeballs from side to side without moving my head - eyes look to the left eyes look to the right left right left right eyes look up eyes look down up down up down, tap tap tap of the fingers never stopping this will bother me click click of the tongue

all this activity going on all at the same time and not stopping for the WHOLE 50 minutes of the therapy session.

And then expected to use this same process outside the therapy room for whenever I experience a panic attack with that same trigger

Nope not for me

I can just picture me sitting in the juvinile court house lobby starting to expereice a panic attack coming on and start clicking my tongue tapping my forhead moving my eyes left right left right up down up down and saying - this will not bother me. Yup right one way ticket to the nearest nut ward because others in the lobby suddenly see a woman start tapping her head moving her eyeballs and making clicking noises and repeating the same words over and over again let alone what the judge would think if I sudden;y start experiencing panic symptoms during the actual hearing and start suddenly clicking, tapping moving eyeballs and repeating the same words over and over again.

A journal, a sketch book and a walkman with a relaxation visualization do just fine for me. out in public it is not a strange thing to see someone start writing and drawing and listening to their walkman or mp3 player.

Instead of using repeating the same sentence, sound and tapping and moving eyeballs the rest of my life everytime I experience the same trigger I would rather take care of the trigger and memories so that I am no longer triggered by them for the rest of my life.