Use these before-and-after scales for rating a topic addressed in a formal PaulsRobot session. SUDS (Subjective Units of Distress/Disturbance) is a traditional negative scale. SUSHI (Subjective Units of Session Harmony and Insight) is a new positive scale. These self-assessments are used to record improvements, to compare the effectiveness of different procedures, and more.
The scale from -1 to -10 is taken directly from the Wikipedia article.
There is no hard and fast rule by which a patient can self assign a SUDS rating to his or her disturbance or distress, hence the name subjective.Two guidelines are:
- The intensity recorded must be as it is experienced now.
- Constriction or congestion or tensing of body parts indicates a higher SUDS than that reported.
Peace, serenity, total relief. No more anxiety of any kind about any particular issue.
After a while such topics will have been discharged to a large extent, and the constant triggering will no longer occur. When such a point has been reached, the client will have much more choice over what she addresses in a PaulsRobot session. At this time, she would start off the session feeling fine, with her attention on nothing in particular. One way or another she will select a topic to address. The instructions usually include a step of deliberately "stirring up" the topic in question so that it impinges heavily on the person. At this point the topic can be in one of three states:
In brief, the session action here is:
The big difference between (1) and (4), assuming the session actions were done correctly, is that the topic addressed will have permanently lost its power over you to some (possibly large) extent. In addition, the calm state one will achieve after a hectic session is far calmer than the before state, although this temporary state is a bonus and not the main purpose of the activity.
Source: Edited from my writing at PaulsRobot3.com
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