What is EMDR Therapy?

Can anyone help me with the details of EMDR Therapy as one of my friend will be going through this therapy and will this be helpful for him to recover fast?

It is short for Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing. You think about a memory from the past and you move your eyes from side to side or a therapist taps on your knees or wrists while you think about the memory and its supposed to desensitize you from that memory. I have been doing it and it is not working for me.

it's slightly more involved than that. your therapist should also walk you through creating a new ending for the memory, a happy memory, and in my experience I was encouraged to visualize myself nurturing the younger version of myself as well. it's extremely intense and emotional. I didn't get to have enough sessions to really see results unfortunately, but I keep hearing how effective it apparently is.