607b betting on change: talking addiction & gambling with a psychologist
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What Is the Best Type of Therapy for Gambling Addiction?
Every therapist has their own favorite modality. Mine is schema therapy and EMDR. EMDR is an acronym for eye movement desensitization reprocessing. Bilateral stimulation, so running your eyes, literally left and right, it suppresses the amygdala. It suppresses the activation of the amygdala. That can be social threat or physical threat. And that activates, triggers anxiety and fight a flight. So this act of BLS, bilateral stimulation, suppresses that.
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