These meridian points appear to act as a governing force in healing and growth, and when they are blocked or unbalanced, the person experiences emotional disturbance, or what Dr. He decided to try a variation of a holistic, mind-body healing method (based on the theory derived from Chinese medicine) that energy flows along meridian lines in the body. Thought Field Therapy was discovered in 1981 by Roger Callahan Ph.D., a cognitive psychologist who tried everything in his repertoire to help a woman with a lifelong, severe, and apparently intractable water phobia. TFT is an emerging treatment which is very well known on the west coast of America and in Europe. This method has been so successful it has been the subject of many television and radio broadcasts. TFT has the ability to rapidly and permanently alleviate debilitating emotions, which are associated with many traumatic memories and life situations that triggering them. TFT has proven to be very effective in dealing with PTSD, trauma, depression, stress, anxiety, phobias, fear, addictive urges, OCD, ADD, ADHD/ADID, anger problems, and several learning disabilities. Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is based upon our meridian system (body's energy system) for dealing with psychological problems that includes careful diagnosing.