The problem is that the treatment for all these self-induced maladies is drugs. So kids end up on a cocktail of drugs that send them into psychosis when they decide to quit taking them. Then they need more drugs for that. All of this goes on before they leave high school. When they get to college, the parents are screaming for more therapists and all the drugs have to be upped due to the “stress”. Meanwhile, the kids are threatening suicide as if it is like “running away from home by hiding in the garage”. I know the person that fields those calls on campus.
If that was 100% true, AP, I would let it go...
This is a treatment that used for CPTSD (many traumatic events spread out over time - say a child that getting abused by an older family member). No drugs are involved in EMDR and this was ONE of the treatments I was talking about when compared to my talk/behavioral based therapy in the late ‘80’s.
https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
One of the young men I am thinking of that received this type of treatment had survived 3 actual “lucky to be alive” suicide attempts. He hasn’t gone to college, but works as a delivery driver (21 years old). This was part of the solution for him.