Miley Cyrus opens up about the state of the voice behind her lashing voice
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Miley Cyrus reveals how she overcomes the horrors of the stage with cutting-edge therapy techniques she says she saved her life.
In an interview with the New York Times last month, Cyrus shared that desensitization and reprocessing of eye movements, or EMDR, is crucial to her healing and mental health. This treatment was developed in the 1980s by psychologist Francine Shapiro to help relieve the pain around painful memories. This treatment has been used by clinicians for decades, but has become an increasingly popular and sought-after treatment for dealing with traumatic or unfavorable life experiences.
“Love it. It saved my life,” Cyrus said of EDMR. “It’s like watching a movie in your mind. …I came out of it, and I’ve never had a stage fear again. I don’t have a stage fear anymore.”
Cyrus is not the only celebrities open about experiencing EMDR. In 2021, Prince Harry shared a mental health documen with Oprah Winfrey in his Apple TV+ mental health documen, saying that he will deal with the discomfort he feels when he uses EMDR to jump into London, and reminds him of his mother’s loss.
“It’s an unstoppable wave because people hear friends talk about it,” Wendy Bird, a professional counselor at the EMDR International Association and president of the board, previously told USA Today. “When I trained in 2008, I had to explain what EMDR is and tell my clients why they thought it was a very good treatment.
What is EMDR?
EMDR involves what is called adaptive information processing systems to cultivate past traumatic experiences in a safe space, allowing the brain to essentially reprocess.
“EMDR allows the brain to process that information and allow the brain to store it in a way that it knows, ‘I’m in a different situation and isn’t happening to me anymore,’ which allows it to heal from traumatic or unfavourable or overwhelming experiences,” Byrd said.
Our brains and bodies have built-in mechanisms for processing information. But sometimes, the mechanism is overwhelming, especially when we experience trauma.
When new information comes in, similar to that unfavourable experience, the brain stores it in the same place as the original trauma, Byrd said. This can make things you don’t intimidate in your daily life feel dangerous.
“It’s either a blue car running down the road, or a dog’s barking, or the face of your spouse in such a distorted way, and suddenly you’re upset and you’re overwhelmed,” she said.
How do clinicians perform EMDR?
Bird said during the EMDR session the clinician will ask questions to bring up components of memory that include sensory information such as visual, sound and smell. The clinician asks how your body felt during the experience and how you felt during the experience – emotional information that leads to that memory.
Ultimately, the clinician will add or tap eye movements. This is called bilateral stimulus. Research shows that eye movements promote information processing and calm human physiology.
“It creates something that makes you feel upset and unshakable. It helps your brain create very vivid and unvivid images,” Bird said. “And part of that is because of what we call double attention: I mean, I’m in the room with my therapist or via Zoom, and today I’m thinking about that experience.
Part of the reprocessing occurs when clinicians introduce something positive to the recall. The therapist asks, “What do you want to think about that experience now?”
“It brings you information now. Perhaps the positive is that it’s over, or what you’ve learned from it, or that you’re worthy now,” she said.
Byrd said EMDR is tackling different types of trauma and that most people are good candidates for treatment. EMDR is effective whether someone is trying to deal with a single traumatic event, such as a car accident, or a chronic experience such as bullying.
What are your hopes for patients after they complete EMDR?
Patients work with clinicians to identify future outcomes they want – how they want to think, feel and behave in the world. On Bird’s side, she said she was trying to build resilience in her clients.
“I hope that finding their triggers will be very difficult,” she said.
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Byrd encourages people with painful memories to consider EMDR.
“People sometimes feel like what happened to them isn’t big enough. They should be able to get through it… And it breaks my heart because they know they deserve to feel better and feel better,” she said. “You can hope that people knew they could come in and understand some of the things that are causing them pain, and that won’t be long before they can get some relief.”
