eli5 how does EMDR work to resolve trauma?
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As said before EMDR isn’t scientifically proven to work in a specific way. However it is vastly known that EMDR has a really high chance of resolving trauma. What a part of the psychologists seems to believe is that by “overloading” the short term memory of the brain, whilst thinking of the trauma (in long term memory), the negative aspects of the trauma don’t get a chance to get to the short term memory. After which the trauma will be allocated tot the long term memory once again, without the negative aspects and thereby being less of a trauma.
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