01/11/2025
🚨 CID: Critical Incident Desensitization
When someone has just gone through a traumatic or overwhelming experience, timing is everything.
The CID protocol is a simple, structured EMDR-based intervention designed to help reduce emotional disturbance right in the moment — in the hours or days after an incident.
This 8-step process can help people calm their nervous systems, organize what just happened, and begin to shift out of fight/flight/freeze — even before formal therapy begins.
🧠 It’s not processing the whole trauma — it’s creating space to begin.
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