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A few years ago a friend told me about something called eye movement desensitization something (EMDR). I wasn't buying it but I built a prototype anyways, and was really impressed with how effective it was. The code is super crappy, but the experience is quite good imo. Here's a link:

https://bradbarb.in/emdr/demo/

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Bit of a tangent. I'm irked by comments such as this, that are mildly related but add not much value to the discussion besides a shameless plug for their own products.

Fwiw

ironically

I agree. It's felt like a lot of online forums are starting to become Quora where it's all self-promotion thinly veiled as adding to the conversation. It reminds me of PG's The Submarine blog post (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html)

As the OP is about an app for stress and anxiety, promoting similar apps doesn't seem all that unreasonable.

I feel you. But it's not a product. Not anything I'm doing anything with. Just thought it might be an interesting thing for the OP to integrate into his app.

I disagree and it seemed like a genuine comment to me as breathing exercises seem similar to eye exercises to me.

GP’s site is just a non-commercialized prototype so seems more like showing vis level of interest vs self promotion.

What was your experience? I've only used EMDR in the background of 1 on 1 therapy so I'm wondering what you get out of it when used in isolation?

I find it relaxing. Can't really say much more than that because my experience is limited to that link I posted. How about you?

Are there instructions on how to use this somewhere? Should I be following the circles or looking dead center and allowing the circles to go into my periphery?

Thanks!

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