Pro EFT is a twenty-first century technology. When people are feeling bad enough emotionally they seek help. Mostly they do not know the differences between psychiatry, psychology, and Pro EFT. By comparing the treatment models I hope to better explain what each has to offer.
I have been an RN with a specialty in psychiatry for almost 16 years. This gives me some insight into this mode of treatment. Modern psychiatry has become almost exclusively biological psychiatry. Biological psychiatrists follow a model that the treatment of emotional disorders involves drug therapy to block or enhance neurotransmitters. The psychiatrists we see in TV shows meet with their patients for an hour to practice a specific brand of psychotherapy and only occasionally prescribe a medication when it is absolutely necessary. This type of psychiatry is now exceedingly rare.
Today the doctor will interview you to determine which DSM IV TR diagnosis you may have. They will be checking from a list of disorders including Adjustment Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, and many others. Once the disorder is determined the psychiatrist will determine the specific symptoms to be treated. In major depression the classic 3 symptom groups are anhedonia, psychomotor retardation, and perseverating distress. The depression link in the above sentence is one of the best classes on depression I have seen.
The lack of pleasure and happiness is known as anhedonia. The plan would be to give drugs that will hopefully increase the amount of dopamine available in your brain. This is difficult as there is not a specific drug for dopamine. The doctor has to increase the potential for increased dopamine by increasing other neurotransmitters. This can be very tricky and does not give precise results.
For the symptom group of not being able to get out of bed in the morning known as psychomotor retardation the idea is to increase the amounts of norepinephrine. There are many antidepressants that increase norepinephrine as a secondary effect. There is another group that promote both norepinephrine and serotonin together. This again makes addressing this issue difficult to do with any precision.
The third symptom group is perseverating grief, condemnation, and the anxiety that requires obsessive actions. This is the group of symptoms that is associated with serotonin. There are a group of meds dedicated to increasing serotonin in the brain exclusively but they also affect dopamine and or norepinephrine. This makes balancing the symptoms very difficult. The added issue of dealing with the side effects of each medication makes for a complex picture that requires someone trained in this specialty.
Incidentally antidepressants have only been associated with symptom improvement in severe clinical depression. In mild to moderate depression the placebos are equally effective. Many people are helped to a degree and some get much better in their function. No medication eliminates the psychological, epigenetic, unconscious programing, and cellular disruption that are an intimate part of the patients suffering. Getting back enough function to get on with your life is the goal of psychiatric treatment planning. The treatment model is known as disease maintenance and symptom management. The goal is not to eliminate the diagnosis from your life. The goal is to give you assistance for the rest of your life while keeping you functional enough to participate in the activities of daily living.
A drug is considered a successful drug if it the symptom categories do not return with such intensity that they completely disrupt your life. The drugs will not give you new thoughts, emotional states, or reactions. They may give some ability for you to develop these improvements on your own but there is no pill that supplies these changes directly.
As an RN I was clinically supervised with graduate psychologists fulfilling their clinical residency. I was team leader or therapy coordinator for Partial Hospitalization Programs. My job was to supervise and facilitate group therapy for those with significant emotional illness. This along with a very intense continuing education credits program for nursing combined with college courses in psychology gave me a fair understanding of what psychology has to offer.
Modern psychology has split off into two distinct groups. There are countless sub groups all of whom have very different ideas about how the mind works and what is proper treatment. A few years ago clinical studies were done and then grouped in meta analysis to determine which treatments in psychology cured or produced significant symptom reduction. The original results showed that only two kinds of psychotherapy produced significant symptom reduction. They were Inter Personal Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
These results caused a movement to form in psychology with the goal of maintaining a patient’s function as opposed to curing their problem. These psychotherapists argued that they were doing a necessary service as their clients would get worse without the care they were providing. There is a fairly predominant assumption in both psychiatry and psychology that psych patients do not get better. While this is true in some cases I have never subscribed to this as the inevitable outcome.
The second group were alleviating the symptoms, often permanently. This group was of the greatest interest to me. I trained extensively in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with some training in Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy. I taught the specific interventions that David Burn’s had developed to the patients I treated. The teaching goal was that they would continue to use them whenever they needed from then on. I also became adept at his techniques for identifying which cognitive intervention worked the best for each individual person. This was infinitely better than randomly showing dozens of techniques most of which were not effective for that one person. Incidentally randomly teaching the 30 to 40 effective coping strategies and interventions is the norm in hospital settings. I have never understood this. There was and is great resistance in the field to testing each coping strategy for individual results.
I will give two examples of successful Cognitive Behavioral Treatment. These examples will also explain why I continued to look for a better way until I found EFT. The first is a patient who was being treated for Major Depressive Disorder and Panic Disorder in one of the many programs I have worked in over the years. I used David Burn’s protocol of identifying the Cognitive Intervention that works for that person, teaching her how to make a panic attack happen, and during the panic attack have her use her intervention to destroy the beliefs she would come to great harm by the panic. In 2 short sessions between groups her panic attacks were gone. They did not return again. She kept in touch through a followup program I also ran for several years. The problem was her mental and emotional anguish from her core issues still returned fairly often and she had to continue to fight it down with her techniques. Cured of panic attacks and able to work, but still suffering.
I have an acquaintance who was treated successfully by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by a private therapist. He never had a professional relationship with me. He was successful at regaining his function from an episode of major depression. He continues to feel pretty severe emotional pain from his past from time to time but his function has returned to normal for many years. He no longer has Major Depressive Disorder.
With Pro EFT therapy we do not diagnose or treat any DSM IV TR illness. We eliminate the emotional suffering you are feeling in your life now. If you feel angry, depressed, anxious, and resentful from events in your life we systematically eliminate these emotions from your entire body related to the events. You still can feel bad from a new event but the ongoing suffering from the past is over. If you would like to get rid of you ongoing panic, jealousy, heartbreak, and anxiety I would be glad to help you eliminate these from your life. Please check out my specials page to get the best deal possible. With Pro EFT therapy we eliminate those painful emotions from your painful life experiences. With life pain is inevitable, with Pro EFT the ongoing suffering is now optional. Here are three links to the results this treatment can produce even after years of suffering. 1, 2, 3.
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