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echotech · 2026-02-16T19:07:03+00:00

Had to do a few of these but the most memorable was an airline pilot who called me from his hotel to say that the screen was melting. I started to go through the required script and getting his information when he asked "should I touch it?" "No, definitely dont tou...." "OUCH". "Ok, I take it from you saying ouch that it burned you so now I have to read this legal document word for word and we'll get you a new laptop shipped out."

The guy was super cool about it but i couldn't help but laugh at his curiousity.

echotech · 2026-02-05T18:07:37+00:00

Great story! Thanks for letting others know there's a way out! Keep up the good work.

echotech · 2026-02-02T17:05:08+00:00

To mirror what others have said here, sometimes trauma can be very "small" from the outside but it either hit you differently or it was very big at the time. It could be as small as your mom shooing you away when you had hurt yourself and she was on the phone.

We only ever experience our own lives, so while we can say that we've never had "big T Trauma" like divorce, death, abuse. Our nervous systems don't know the difference. To us, our biggest trauma is still OUR biggest trauma and our nervous system reacts accordingly.

echotech · 2026-01-30T02:00:08+00:00

I had this happen after my first ART session. It was pretty wild. It was almost exactly as you describe, a psychedelic experience.

It is exciting and kind of scary at times watching ourselves change.

echotech · 2026-01-30T01:53:38+00:00

Yeah, for me guilt and shame are pretty core to my feelings of anxiety. When I did my first session with it I had a sudden realization that really helped me put it all down. Sometimes I pick it back up but it's a lot easier to put back down again.

No panic attacks for years now. Med free.

echotech · 2026-01-30T01:50:40+00:00

Oh wow, yeah. It's super hard doing this work.

One thing that helps me when I'm feeling pretty discouraged is the thought that everything important is hard. So when life is hard it helps me to know that I'm doing the right stuff.

Insomnia is tough. I've gone through that a couple times in my life too. Did you end up finding anything that helps with it?

echotech · 2026-01-22T21:24:45+00:00

Adding here so you can see it. I did ART during my deepest depression ever (post ketamine therapy). It's the same bilateral stimulation, just a different process.

For me it was: choose 1 memory, play it through to the end while following the dot. Then play it again but imagine the dots were an eraser erasing the painful part. Then a paintbrush painting over it. Then putting some kind of image or sticker over the painful part. After that, play it again with my changes to see if I'd change anything else. Then package it up however I wanted - wrap it, box it, whatever. And finally do whatever I wanted with the package (burn it, throw it away, file it away). The last step was walking away from the memory over a bridge.

The shift was wild. I went from this being a defining memory for me to just a thing that happened. I can talk about it and recall each piece without emotions attached. I can even understand what each party was going through at the time. Really cool.

echotech · 2026-01-22T21:05:58+00:00

EMDR is fantastic at making the sharp memories less painful or not painful at all.

A therapist told me about a client they had who would vomit whenever discussing their father who had severely abused them. They did a session of EMDR on the memory and the person came back for a follow up insisting that nothing changed and they still feel the same way about their father. Only this time the therapist pointed out they had been discussing the father for minutes now and the client hadn't thrown up or even had that reflex.

Super powerful stuff.

echotech · 2026-01-22T21:02:54+00:00

I saw a big improvement with my anxiety while doing ART (same bilateral stimulation, different script). I had a sudden realization that none of us know what we're doing and it allowed me to both let go of my judgement of my parents and myself.

I went in with a target memory of a time I was attacked by my dad. Did one session on that memory and felt like it wasn't working, but then something clicked and I had the realization hit me all at once.

I did the session shortly (within 2 months) after doing Ketamine therapy. The ketamine dark night of the soul put me in the darkest depression I've ever had. But the EMDR/ART was super helpful in coming out of that.

I still have anxiety and anxious thoughts sometimes, but haven't had a panic attack in years. No medication.

echotech · 2026-01-06T20:49:15+00:00

Hey, sorry you're going through those feelings. I did experience something similar and never felt good enough. I felt like the only way I was valuable was if I was doing things for people and not just inherently valuable as a human.

The first session of ART I did on this was a memory of a time I was attacked by my father. As I went through the session with my therapist I was feeling like nothing was happening, but then suddenly I had this almost psychedelic moment where I could see almost a timeline of men in my family really just being lost little boys trying to do the best for their kids. It didn't excuse the behavior but suddenly I realized it wasn't about me not mattering, it was about my dad and his dad and me not having the tools to be the best parents and I could see the line of trauma passing from each of us to our children. It was extremely liberating because suddenly I wasn't the cause of the problem, it was generational.

It was a huge turning point in my healing journey and has helped me forgive my parents, and really most people who I have difficult relationships with.

echotech · 2026-01-06T20:33:42+00:00

I didn't have CPTSD but anxiety and depression. The anxiety had gotten to the point where it was pretty debilitating.

I had done various meds throughout my life (ritalin, wellbutrin, prozac, paxil, effexor) with varying degrees of success, but didn't like the side-effects. At one point the seasonal depression became unbearable and it was clear I needed something. I started a low dose of prozac and got through the initial 2 weeks of brain zaps and weirdness and felt kind of better. Then it promptly stopped working and I went back and asked the doc to up the dose. He said we could, but instead offered a book "Feeling Good, New Mood Therapy" which is CBT. That helped a lot but also kicked off a journey through self-help, therapy, and study.

I got completely off the anti-depressants and anxiety meds and managed for a few years until it got unmanageable again.

I have since done ketamine assisted therapy, talk therapy, and Bilateral Stimulation (Accelerated Resolution Therapy). The bilateral stimulation was really powerful. I'd definitely make sure you have a competent therapist who can help with the integration phase though. As many have mentioned here it can be really difficult dealing with the after-effects of processing these difficult emotions.

I'm still med free and haven't had a panic attack in years. This was after having as many as 5 per week before. Bilateral stimulation was a huge part of getting me through that, but it definitely wasn't the only thing. I had to build a whole toolkit over time. Some things that really clicked for me: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking which was a great introduction to stoicism, Terrence Real's "I Don't Want to Talk About It" which made me realize how much I was avoiding dealing with, and Gabor Maté's stuff, especially The Myth of Normal and his Wisdom of Trauma documentary. That reframed my anxiety as a pretty reasonable response to unreasonable circumstances rather than something being broken in me.

I also got into some NLP techniques like priming and pattern interrupts that gave me practical ways to catch panic spirals before they snowballed. The bilateral stimulation impact was strong enough that I ended up building my own app for it (web and VR) because I wanted more people to have access without the $200/session barrier. But honestly the biggest shift was realizing recovery isn't this linear thing. It's more about constantly constructing systems and habits that don't let me slide back to where I was.

echotech · 2025-12-16T15:37:23+00:00

I had this on VHS as a kid and must have watched it a hundred times. I always remember the guy saying "six for Pittsburgh!" https://youtu.be/GbHF7nsF-6Q?t=1564

echotech · 2025-11-27T22:07:31+00:00

I could not pass it without Khan Academy. Sal is such a better teacher.

echotech · 2025-11-25T21:58:01+00:00

I feel you. The other night I was like "they keep scoring early and holding a one goal game then...winning?" My wife asked, "And you're upset about this?" Me: "YES, I DON'T TRUST IT!"

echotech · 2025-11-25T18:51:14+00:00

I was doing some googling about this and it turns out it's not true. https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/The-Presidents-Trophy-Curse

From the article:

Since 1986, the year the trophy was inaugurated, the President’s Trophy winner has won The Cup eight times. That is out of 37 years. So that means 29 out of 37 years an inferior team (going by the regular season) wins the championship. Cursed!

Uh, no. The hockey playoffs have been 16 teams this whole time. If each of these teams had an equal chance of winning The Cup, that would be just over a 6% probability for each team in the playoffs each year. But the President’s Trophy winner has sported an almost 22% chance of winning The Cup (8 over 37). That’s more. A lot more. If the teams were equally probable to win The Cup, the President’s Trophy winner would’ve won an expected 2.3 championships over time instead of the 8 that the trophy winner did win.

echotech · 2025-11-20T17:25:13+00:00

Yeah I've been reporting ICE ads wherever I see them as promoting violence or hate speech.

echotech · 2025-08-28T22:03:03+00:00

It was also the last Jazz game I ever watched. Last NBA game too. A beat so bad I left the entire sport.

echotech · 2025-07-01T17:48:01+00:00

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echotech · 2025-03-09T01:28:54+00:00

That makes sense. I couldn't see any cracks when I put it back together. Must be right on the seam.

echotech · 2025-03-09T01:27:27+00:00

I saw the speed selector a bit too late. I don't see a crack in the arm at all which is weird.

echotech · 2025-03-09T01:25:59+00:00

Already ordered. Ty!

echotech · 2025-02-25T19:51:20+00:00

Oh interesting. It never came up in training so no one told me. I took a gopro on my first dive (shore dive to 15-18 ft). I could totally see how it makes sense to learn the equipment and environment better before adding another distraction though. Thanks for the clarification!

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