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Testimonials with EvTFT
Thought Field Therapy with Dissociative Identity Disorder

This experience is just too good to keep under my hat, so I want to share it with my friends. A few months ago, my therapist, psychologist Dr. John Diepold, started using a new treatment modality to help me get through painful memories, traumas and "stuck" places without all the emotional and physical agony of abreactions, with which we are all familiar. Sound like a pipe dream? It's called Thought Field Therapy (EvTFT), and it works!

The way I understand it, EvTFT helps one's energy system discharge negative emotional energy (perturbations) connected to pain, emotional distress, traumatic memories or whatever by using the body's acupuncture meridians. The therapist uses a diagnostic technique to determine where the energy is "stuck" and then has the client/patient tap the corresponding meridian points to rebalance the energy system. All the client/patient has to do is focus on a specific emotion, thought or sensation that represents whatever is causing her distress and rate the level of distress and a scale of 0-10. That level will decrease with the treatment, ideally all the way to zero. Progress is based not only on one's subjective feelings, but also objectively in a measurement of muscle resistance (a little like kinesiology) when attuned to the negative thought, memory or feeling.

Dr. Diepold has helped me through a number of ugly memories and periods of feeling horrible about myself using this technique. Some of those experiences are now so thoroughly resolved that I don't even remember them unless he reminds me of them. They are not re-dissociated; they just don't matter anymore! Amazing, huh?

The most fantastic experience I've had with EvTFT is one of my most recent ones, which I'd like to share.

In the past several weeks, I had become increasingly overwhelmed by an intense self-hatred that came from several alters. It got so bad that I was struggling hourly not to hurt myself, and I could barely function. I was neck deep in misery and chaos. I could access some of the involved alters so they could write and draw how they felt, but others were truly stuck inside. The confusion was so bad I couldn't even identify all the child alters that were involved, something that is not usually difficult for me at this stage of therapy.

We started this EvTFT session by agreeing that all affected alters would participate, even if they couldn't actually be "out" at the same time. This is important to note, I think, because usually I can only function in the identity/-ies of an alter/s who is consciously "out." That usually means that an alter who can't or won't come out in therapy doesn't get helped. But this time was different.

We went through a long sequence of locating and stimulating the meridians in proper order, and the results were incredible! In just one session, those intense feelings of self-hatred disappeared. I went from an intensity of 9 to zero. My thoughts changed from, "I HATE myself, I want to slice myself up," to, "I don't hate myself, why on earth would I want to hate myself, there's no reason for that." In the process, I felt a lot of energy move through my body in the form of heat, with sweat pouring down. By the time we were done, my legs felt almost too weak to hold me up (the session was conducted standing), but otherwise I felt wonderful, that is to say balanced and at ease, which was a complete turnaround from how I entered the session. Even the child alters felt good!

The rest of that day was the most productive and physically comfortable one I had had in ages. I also accomplished something, which would have terrified me before this experience: Our church conducted a children's crusade which began that evening and continued the following two days. A friend had talked me into working with the kids, and I had reluctantly agreed. I used to do a lot of church work with children, but since I entered therapy and started digging into my past, I avoided children because they triggered either flashbacks or fits of rage (which I was afraid I'd take out on them). But when I walked into church and sat down among the children, I saw them in a completely different light. I felt such tenderness toward them, and their beauty and innocence charmed me. Even more amazing, they seemed to sense my feelings toward them, and several of the very young ones gravitated toward me. They climbed on my lap and sat cuddled up against me, something I've never experienced in all my years of working with children. I'm crying as I write this, it was so profound-and I attribute it directly to the change in how I see myself, specifically to the release of self-hatred in my young child alters.

Every time we do Thought Field Therapy, I find myself saying to Dr. Diepold, "Are you sure this isn't some kind of hocus-pocus?" He assures me it isn't. but we agree that the results seem barely short of miraculous compared to the time, agony and frequent periods of disability that arise from "typical" therapeutic abreactions.

I don't know if or how it can be scientifically documented, but it seems that EvTFT can be used to process painful material quickly, comfortably, without reliving all the excruciating details, and perhaps even without accessing all alters directly. Imagine being able to do therapy with an alter who is hurting too badly to come out! It challenges widely accepted premises of DID therapy, but I'm here to say it's working for me.

We've been using EvTFT for about six months, and I haven't had a single relapse of any material we've covered. That's the highest success rate I've had in nearly five years of therapy.

Prior to using EvTFT, we had been working with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and while I can report an excellent success rate for processing material with EMDR, I found it very draining. Often I was disabled or even bedridden for several hours to a day after an EMDR session. That's an improvement from other abreactive work we've done, but still quite uncomfortable. In contrast, with EvTFT I've experienced little or no "down time" after sessions and no unpleasant side effects, other than breaking a sweat.

I have also found EvTFT useful in treating headaches and sleep disturbances, using treatment algorithms taught to me by my therapist. They work as well as any medication I've tried, sometimes even better! Dr. Diepold is certified to teach EvTFT and would welcome inquiries from therapists and other mental health professionals:

John H. Diepold, Jr., Ph.D.,
703 E. Main St.,
Moorestown, NJ 08057,
Tel:(856) 778-9300
email: jdiepold1@verizon.net

I would also be glad to correspond with anyone who'd like to know more about these experiences. I believe EvTFT will prove to be real breakthrough in the treatment of PTSD and related disorders.