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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

In fact, for people who’ve experienced terrifying or anxiety-inducing events, therapists apply eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, a technique that mimics the patient’s REM-sleep eye movements, allowing them to “relive” and discuss the incident with decreased anxiety.) Women excel at this; men can benefit from more of it.