long shot - does anyone recall hearing on Radio 4...........

[MsAngela]

perhaps 3/4/5 years ago - a woman who's DM had died and she was forever having upsetting thoughts.

She said she had discovered a 'therapy' and within hours/days of doing it she no longer had these bad thoughts that she'd been having for years.

I'd really like to use that 'therapy' to lay to rest some persistent thoughts I keep having and would prefer not to.

CBT?

If not CBT, which is really useful for intrusive thoughts, maybe EFT? I haven't tried it, but it's also supposed to work for dealing with unwanted thoughts, I think.

Do you know he show it was on? If Woman's Hour, I think they have years worth of shows stored as podcasts.

Sounds like CBT. That's what I use for anxiety

I'm presuming not the same one, but there was a Woman's Hour on pretty recently - in the last month or two - talking about and interviewing people with intrusive, upsetting thoughts and they said it was a form of OCD. I can't remember what the solution was, but you should be able to find the podcast.

The one I'm thinking of was one of the late night women's hour shows, on thoughts:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06b89wt

No, but could be EFT or EMDR?

Didn't hear it but my guess would be EMDR based on the speed of response.

Sounds like EMDR.

EDMR is the one where you tap your head isn't it ?

Tap your head? No - the "EM" stands for "eye movement". You track something moving from side to side with your eyes, often a light bar.

EMDR eye movement desensitization reprocessing mainly used for PTSD and trauma survivors.

EFT is the tapping one.

Thanks for EFT info - it was highly recommended by someone very sensible.

Paul Mckenna is an advocate of a variation of this - dunno if it works, but it's in one of his books.

Wow, I've learned something new tonight thanks to this thread. Very interesting