Hi, would it be at all accurate to say that EMDR might be of little use to someone who finds the founding ideas of CBT to be flawed, i.e.-that a given subject is an agent in their own life, that 'changing' one's mind is precisely what chronic GAD *prevents*. After four years of CBT, I've gotten no closer to alleviating anxiety at all.
I state this here not as a grievance against CBT per se, but to ask a more difficult question: If one's anxiety is highly *resistant* to many techniques of well-being (psychiatric, psychotropic meds, CBT, Gestalt psychotherapy, to name only three with which I am familiar), is EMDR an advisable therapy. Given the prohibitive cost of EMDR, can anyone advise vis-a-vis whether EMDR makes a radical epistemological break with previous treatments of trauma & anxiety or whether it emerges from a particular school/technique? I've had chronic GAD for eighteen years and am looking for miracles. Is EMDR advisable given that scenario? I don't expect concrete responses, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.