Bit of background: I got a referral to perinatal mental health services as my Mum has bipolar and suffered bad post natal depression which apparently puts me at increases risk of post natal psychosis and depression. I've suffered from anxiety since my late teens and this increases in times of stress.
The CPN keeps trying to talk me into tapping/emotional freedom technique which is loosely based on acupuncture techniques and follows the ideas that negative emotions are 'trapped energies' the body and you can release them by tapping on certain acupressure points.
From the tapping.com website:
How Tapping Works
Before you read this, realise that you don't need to know precisely how Tapping works...You will still be left with unanswered questions after reading this explanation...You don't really know how electricity works - no-one really does
'No one knows how electricity works' ARGH. And:
The biggest thing that puts people off Tapping is that they see it as a little bit New Age. It's funny to me, as someone who studied science at Cambridge University, I find it perfectly scientific
She keeps telling me that 'ok, there's not that the science behind it' but that she's 'seen it work for enough people to know it works' and the great thing about it is that 'you don't have to believe in it for it to work’.
I've tried to say that while it might seem to work for some people, I think that's more likely the calming effect of distraction/ritual rather than unblocking negative energies. I did try it many years ago and found it managed to distract me for five minutes but didn't have any long term effects and didn't think it was particularly effective. When I say this, she repeats what I've said above and tbh seems to be getting a bit narky that I think it's bullshit.
AIBU to want to tell her that in more forceful terms and to stop trying to get me to do it because I think it's a load of woo?