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Old Jan 15, 2014, 09:32 PM
Anonymous32735
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Originally Posted by Mactastic View Post
Can someone please tell me what a trigger and a csa is? i'm sorry to be so ignorant.
csa = child sexual abuse
trigger is something that invokes strong emotion or flashbacks

I've never tried EMDR but have wondered about it.

Traumatic events cause faulty memory encoding, leading to PTSD anxiety. EMDR supposedly creates new neural pathways through remembering the events/processing them with T.