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Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.

Drawn from what Scott Alexander said

EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: a trauma therapy in which the patient recalls a memory while moving their eyes from side to side. Recommended as a first-line PTSD treatment; whether the eye movements themselves do anything is still argued about.

Psychotherapy Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.

Trauma What overwhelming experience leaves behind, and whether it is stored in the body, the memory, or the loop between them.

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What Scott Alexander actually said

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  1. Scott Alexander

    Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten

    I would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.

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