Some of my clients are Generation Z (born between 1997-2012) and as of 2024 the age range of this generation is 12-27 years old. I mostly focus on clients suffering from general anxiety, OCD and trauma. The reports of my Gen Z clients about early exposure to pornography and how it negatively affected their lives, are very disturbing. It is safe to say that around 2010 when smartphones became widely available for the regular public, the situation worsened because the pornographic features unfortunately crept through these devices.

Panic attacks will strike out of nowhere sometimes and can happen in unpredictable places. When you know that a panic attack is coming, start describing the feeling to yourself without judging it. Observe the sensations of your body, your thoughts. Try to rate your panic on the scale of 1-10, and ask yourself if you can tolerate this level of discomfort without going into a full blown panic attack.

I am not a neurologist, so I will give you my input from my clinical experiences as a therapist with a little bit of science. When clients come to me with some issue or crisis, most of the time they already feel very strong about it. They are, as we call it in Brainspotting, “activated”. The activation is coming from the “capsule” of the memory or emotion stored in the deep primitive brain…