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"desensitization" Definitions
  1. desensitization (to something) the process or fact of becoming less aware of something as a problem by becoming used to it
  2. (specialist) the process of treating somebody/something so that they will stop being sensitive to physical or chemical changes, or to a particular substance

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You mentioned before the desensitization of ourselves toward gun violence.
It's a wicked tactic but crucial to his desensitization campaign.
One way to forget is to undergo counterconditioning, or systematic desensitization.
Desensitization involves first filtering the antibodies out of a patient's blood.
EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) EMDR can also treat trauma.
It wasn't so much desensitization as growing tired of the whole process.
Then a nurse suggested that he ask Johns Hopkins about its desensitization study.
The danger is the desensitization that happens when living online or on a screen.
There's a level of desensitization you experience when you deal with death every day.
Desensitization can also mean having intravaginal injections of increasingly stronger dilutions of a partner's semen.
This process, called desensitization, involves gradually exposing yourself to scary situations until the anxiety dissipates.
Desensitization — gradual exposure over time — is essential to helping a dog wear a muzzle comfortably.
"'Desensitization' actually means persevering through the pain to build up a tolerance over time," notes Laura.
If a transplant costs perhaps $100,000 and you add desensitization, it might be $110,000 to $120,000.
Next Afshar led E.R. through relaxation, visualization, and breathing exercises, and a technique called systematic desensitization.
The most effective treatment is exposure; militaries in many countries run weekslong motion-sickness desensitization programs.
" Dr. Smith added: "There is a heightened alarm, but there can also be some desensitization that's happening.
But I was about to embark on what I now reflect on as my second desensitization period.
That's the kind of desensitization that I talk about as being a way to making light of atrocities.
For the best desensitization results, use high-value rewards such as tiny pieces of fresh meat or cheese.
That's sort of the desensitization theory that they'll indulge and then get tired of it or maybe sick of it.
And then there's the other danger: The continuous onslaught of these videos sometimes feels like it could lead to desensitization.
Gradually, over years and years, I found the right cocktail of confidence, desensitization, apathy, and medication to "conquer" panic attacks.
With lungs, he said, desensitization "is theoretically possible," although he said he was not aware of anyone doing it yet.
Both psychologists agree that social media has fostered a degree of desensitization and, for some, an increased need for validation.
Eating meat from animals necessitates violence against animals and contributes to the desensitization of the people who slaughter the animals.
That feeling lessened in later videos, so I realize that my brain was, in fact, getting used to the experience (desensitization).
She thinks that tolerance needs both desensitization and a bacteria-induced barrier protective response, they're two interlocking pieces of a puzzle.
" Any desensitization, though, is only temporary: "You're not going to cause any lasting damage, nor are you going to get 'addicted.
But kidney specialists argue that desensitization is cheaper in the long run than dialysis, which costs $70,000 a year for life.
So we are also given a torrent of sex — sex that is often deadeningly unsexy, an exercise in desensitization through repetition.
"There seems to be a numbing or desensitization effect for parents who see these movies all the time," Mr. Romer said.
But the only way to get more complete, prolonged relief from allergies is to undergo desensitization or "allergy shots," Overholt said.
And if not, aren't we contributing to our culture's overall desensitization, or even apathy, to the "terrorism" taking place in our communities?
Beyond Care is working on a VR software solution for PTSD based on the principle of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
JB: Well, let me finish up on the systematic desensitization, then we'll get to that pretty big question that you just asked.
I started weekly sessions with a therapist who specializes in a form of trauma therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (E.M.D.R.).
"There's really two exit pathways for people who do this work for the most part: Burnout and Desensitization," she told CNN Business.
There's a lot going on in Funny Games: class and generational conflicts, audiences' desensitization to violent media, societal upheaval, you name it.
Marketers market to older girls, and younger girls start to mimic it, and I do think a lot of it is a desensitization.
Another option is desensitization, which is having sex a couple times per week until your body develops a tolerance to a partner's spunk.
Still, the myth of sex toy "addiction" or that vibrators cause permanent desensitization or make it impossible to cum any other way persists.
Many people also experience dissociation, which can manifest as literal desensitization in parts of the body or the inability to describe physical sensations.
Women who are allergic to penicillin (the most common drug allergy) have to go through a desensitization process that allows them to take it.
Expected attendees at POTUS meeting today to "discuss violent video-game exposure and the correlation to aggression and desensitization in children," per WH pic.twitter.
The actress, 31, shared that she started on a specialized therapy, called EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, to work through past trauma.
Beneath these keen observations, though, rests the onset of something even more troubling than the reality in which they find themselves: numbness and desensitization.
In those cases, "desensitization may be the only realistic option for receiving a transplant," said Dr. Lentine, who was not involved with the study.
In a 1989 essay in The Times, the art critic Richard B. Woodward said Mr. Rosenthal viewed his camera as a weapon against desensitization.
" Ms. McEnroe has tried E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which encourages the person to briefly focus on the traumatic memory) and other "trauma work.
Trump will lead a conversation about "violent video game exposure and the correlation to aggression and desensitization in children," a White House spokeswoman told CNBC.
With MoviePass, at first I went to either matinees or late shows, but after some desensitization, now I'm more likely to go at peak times.
To your desensitization point, I think that on social media in general, we've pushed people to either being either hyper-genuine, or not genuine at all.
I wonder whether [...] there's been a desensitization—that we are starting to see other people as content rather than individual human beings with rights and needs.
For example just forget dangerous, it's expensive to pay for the ticket to actually go through security if you're just gonna use that for systematic desensitization.
The liver is less sensitive to antibodies so there is less need for desensitization, "but it's certainly possible if there are known incompatibilities," Dr. Segev said.
When individuals use opioids repeatedly, they induce tolerance that results in the desensitization of the brain's natural opioid system and make it less responsive over time.
Together, Gonzalez and Levis go through the process of reprocessing Gonzalez's hallway memory using a little-known psychotherapy technique called eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
Already it was becoming evident that cases which once would (and should) have provoked national controversy were increasingly met with desensitization and indifference outside of local protests.
Some of the most common approaches include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), and interpersonal therapy.
"It speaks to the insensitivity and the desensitization" surrounding the issue, Kim Snyder, whose film "Newtown" debuted here at the Sundance Film Festival, told CNN on Monday.
Consuming gingerbread people has not been linked with a desensitization process that promotes cannibalism or violence towards others, and many animal crackers could also be considered generic.
The desensitization procedure takes time — for some patients as long as two weeks — and is performed before the transplant operation, so patients must have a living donor.
Although by far the biggest use of desensitization would be for kidney transplants, the process might be suitable for living-donor transplants of livers and lungs, researchers said.
For example, EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is one psychotherapeutic practice in which traumatic memories can be altered or lessened so they are not as emotionally upsetting.
While internet companies are finally starting to respond (Facebook recently announced a ban on white nationalist content), there remains one lesser-mentioned vehicle for racial desensitization: online gaming.
Some of the negative responses to Martinez's videos - with dozens of users picking fault with how he wore his oxygen mask - showed a desensitization to what people saw live.
There are myriad types of counseling available for people with PTSD, including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, somatic experiencing, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, she says.
" The free, three-course dinner was held next to the pop-up, with a goal of disrupting the event and preventing the city's "desensitization" to "boorishness by the wealthy.
Brain scans of pornography users have demonstrated reductions in grey matter, harm in areas of the mind-controlling motivation and decision-making, impaired impulse control, as well as sexual desensitization.
"In (developed) countries, probiotics can clearly be helpful in the management if infectious diarrhea, in pregnant women with gestational diabetes, and as an adjunct to food allergy desensitization therapy," Goldman said.
Unlike other forms of therapy like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and art therapy, in psychoanalytic practice therapists will allow the patient to speak freely about whatever is on their mind.
At trial, an expert for the state confirmed that systematic desensitization was a "generally accepted treatment method," especially for phobias, and was often paired with relaxation and breathing techniques, precisely as Afshar described.
Luckily, there was help for my son: a rapid desensitization process in the high-risk ward of the hospital that included 10 injections of ant venom over the course of a few hours.
Sex addiction is characterized by feelings of withdrawal when someone ceases certain sexual behaviors, desensitization, and always seeking the next "high," according to her approach, while sexual compulsivity is more about problems with impulse control.
Yorkey added that viewers should react no differently to this scene than to the other rape scenes on the show, saying that it implies a desensitization to female sexual assault when this issue crosses gender lines.
Coates was participating in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a form of therapy in which a patient relives a traumatic event while keeping track of a stimulus that alternates from one side to the other.
Working with Felitti, Redding began a series of therapies, including cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, both of which reduce the long-term effects of toxic memories and help develop adaptive coping mechanisms.
Much has changed in the 25 years since Reservoir Dogs premiered: digital cameras, Quentin Tarantino's commercially successful career and, perhaps most importantly, a desensitization to the violence that propelled Tarantino and his films into the spotlight.
The method, known as desensitization, "has the potential to save many lives," said Dr. Jeffery Berns, a kidney specialist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and the president of the National Kidney Foundation.
In certain corners of the internet, "death grip syndrome" is the term used to describe a non-scientific condition affecting people with penises in which frequent, aggressive masturbation leads to desensitization, erectile dysfunction, and difficulty reaching orgasm.
The results of this study will determine if the new VR desensitization and reprocessing therapy, called Beyond Care PTSD, works and, more interestingly, whether it can be successfully delivered virtually, under the semi-supervision of a therapist.
I started to go to therapy, which didn't help until I found a great "EMDR" therapist [Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a form of therapy that addresses trauma] in Austin, Texas, and took the time to heal.
Speaking to The New York Times, researchers involved in the study said that the desensitization process might also be suitable for liver and lung transplants, although little to no research has been carried out in this area.
Without using any vibration (since that often leads to desensitization), it instead stimulates the clitoris and G-spot in a multitude of ways mimicking a partner's touch to achieve the "holy grail" of the blended female orgasm.
VR more quickly gets you to that spot so you can then use cognitive strategies to overcome it, which is slightly different than cognitive behavioral therapy, which is slightly different than the phobia therapy, which uses systematic desensitization.
The behavior of the people who harassed EA's staff speak to two larger issues: desensitization to these shootings and the dissociative effects of online life where we are uniquely insulated from both empathy and the consequences of our words.
Counselors are trained in techniques like trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps adolescent and teen clients process their experiences and emotions, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a therapy shown to reduce the intensity of trauma memories.
This can happen gradually, with graded exposures that build up to confronting a phobia, by experiencing the worst of your fears all at once (a technique called "flooding"), or through systematic desensitization, when exposures are paired with relaxation techniques.
However, some people will treat the allergy through desensitization (in which you're slowly exposed to semen to build up tolerance, either with a diluted solution in a medical setting or by having sex without condoms once or twice a week).
But the self-deadening required to see the children that way is linked by the Institute's sole repentant employee to the desensitization that made her able to work in "black houses" in Afghanistan and Iraq, where "enhanced interrogations" were performed.
Today, more than 22016 million veterans receive mental-health care through the V.A. The department currently endorses two types of cognitive behavioral therapy to treat PTSD — prolonged exposure and cognitive processing — as well as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (E.M.D.R.).
Today, more than 22016 million veterans receive mental-health care through the V.A. The department currently endorses two types of cognitive behavioral therapy to treat PTSD — prolonged exposure and cognitive processing — as well as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (E.M.D.R.).
But she says cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, which involves recalling traumatic events while simultaneously tracking hand movements your therapist makes, sort of like you do at the eye doctor) have helped her the most.
We knew how it happened previously, but when she tells Ben (Ramon Rodriguez) about it as they play with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy) techniques, we get some insight into why it broke her marriage to Cole (Joshua Jackson) so completely.
There are certainly positive aspects to the work that are perhaps overshadowed by how shocking it is being exposed to content that we wouldn't otherwise see — which raises the question of whether this type of work really contributes to the desensitization of employees.
In 2018, President Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable with video game company CEOs and representatives to discuss "the violent video game exposure and the correlation to aggression and desensitization in children" following the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Here, for example, is Google search data for the September 6 Cincinnati shooting, showing an initial spike in attention, followed by a very fast drop — to near normal search rates — in the days after: This is what desensitization to mass gun violence looks like.
So you have to really recognize the other people as whole people just like yourself, and i think doing that among kids would be a good way to fight against this kind of desensitization where it's all about can you get people to hit the like button.
JB: So the strategy to treat PTSD is slightly different than systematic desensitization, that's called exposure therapy, and that's basically when you've got trauma, one of the ways to treat that is to bring people back to the traumatic event so you can then treat it.
The meeting, according to the White House, was an opportunity "to discuss violent video game exposure and the correlation to aggression and desensitization in children" in the wake of the shooting massacre of 17 students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14.
So you can use VR to have people conquer their fears, for example the fear of heights, and there's a strategy called systematic desensitization, which is you can have people slowly confront their fears, get closer and closer to them and show that that strategy helps you overcome.
Attending a conference for training in "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing," a form of therapy intended to help patients work through trauma by mimicking the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep, Alison bumps into Ben, her unlikely savior during an altercation with a disturbed father a couple of weeks ago.
"As we continue to work towards creating school safety programs that protect all children, the President will be meeting with video game industry leaders and members of Congress to discuss violent video game exposure and the correlation to aggression and desensitization in children," White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said Wednesday.
"It shows that current peanut oral immunotherapy regimens can achieve the immunological goal of desensitization, but that this outcome does not translate into achieving the clinical and patient desired aim of less allergic reactions and anaphylaxis over time," said lead author Derek Chu, an immunologist at McMaster University in Canada, in a statement.
"As we continue to work towards creating school safety programs that protect all children, the president will be meeting with video game industry leaders and members of Congress to discuss violent video-game exposure and the correlation to aggression and desensitization in children," Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Maybe that's why Mr. Lambie and Mr. Rosado were sometimes reticent about telling their own stories, though Mr. Rosado mentioned that he undergoes eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy to counter several incidents of post-traumatic stress disorder, and Mr. Lambie alluded to "foster care issues" that dovetailed with those in the play.
The bucking and the clenching and the grinding are all indicative of desensitization, and of my clients' desperate attempts to generate some real-life arousal, because—as we've already determined—they have become tolerant to subtle sensations, and now require gross and exaggerated stimulation to feel themselves at all, let alone to achieve orgasm.
This is more than just an aesthetic issue, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociologist at American University, argues: The images and language on the far-right clothing Miller-Idriss has catalogued, including "desensitization to violence, valorization of violence, a dehumanization of victims…making fun of victims or playing on words," actually "has the potential to socialize young people towards extremist ways of thinking," she told me.
This means the more porn we watch, the less pleasure we actually derive from the experience, thus inspiring us to intensify our pleasure-seeking efforts, which has us hunting down more explicit stimuli, spending longer amounts of time with said stimuli, and stroking ourselves harder and faster for more prolonged periods of time which—you guessed it—only leads to more desensitization as we pursue what amounts to dandelion fluff, except that it's way more damaging.

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