EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a form of tapping with your fingers along the acupuncture meridians, on specific points. You can learn it DIY (there are numerous free tutorials online - in booklet and video form) or with a licensed practicioner.
It has helped me before, on extreme sadness (when a friend's brother died) and some fears and past issues.
I never thought to use it with 'psychosis' too, mostly cause at the time I didn't know I was experiencing 'psychosis', but now I'm glad to know it can be one of the tools in the belt for that too.
Online there have been successful reports such as:
Successful schizophrenia case: a woman had to confront her present and her past before she could heal. She was on Haldol (!) and refused to take it anymore. Inspiring case. She had help from an experienced EFT practitioner, with everyday and phone support.
EFT for schizophrenia by Dr. Patricia Carrington: 2 people found great relief from mostly DIY self-administered EFT even without work with expert EFT practitioner!
This is how an outpatient mental health clinic with limited funding can help.
Emofree.com reports a case where EFT achieves more in one session than 13 years of medications and traditional therapy by Luke McDonald of Australia. Gary Craig, founder of EFT, says psychiatrists worlwide should hear about this! "The possibilities of handling severe mental cases with little or no medication should get the attention of the entire mental health field." - Ya think? Yeah, right!
Luke speaks of only 2 weeks of EFT, here's An 8 Week Followup on Paranoid Schizophrenia with good results too, another form of energy therapy was used as well (called Frontal Eminences learnt from Applied Kinesiology).
Interestingly, Suzanne Zacharia of eft-scripts.com writes 'You are advised not to use EFT if you have psychosis or schizophrenia, and if you have other severe mental health issues, you are advised to work with an appropriately experienced EFT practitioner or mental health professional.'
Compare this to Dr. Patricia Carrington: she quotes Gary Craig who said 'Try it on everything'! :)
Ben Schwarcz reports mixed results of EFT for bipolar (it cannot halt mania but it can prevent it when early warning signs are recognized, similar for depression, easier to help when it's mild/just started) and adds "EFT is generally not very effective in treating psychosis."
Apparently this depends on the practitioner and approach used then?
Irish EFT site posts a video where an expert says EFT could save NHS a fortune on depression and psychosis, they had a study and it helped all but one person out of 36!
Clearly, further research would be needed!
Meanwhile, I think I'm going to tap some more! :)
