wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2004 at 10:26pm:

Does anyone else continue to experience anxiety responses long after their polygraph exams? My polygraphs were over a year ago,  but whenever I think about them or someone brings them up, my hands start shaking visibly and my heart races. (This especially happens when reading posts on polygraphplace.com...) It seems the polygrah was really a traumatic event for me! Granted I'm a timid person, and being in a small romo with a hostile polygrapher for hours on end was a real nightmare. Has anyone else had anxiety responses regarding the polygraph long after their tests were finished??

Dr Furedy has discussed the ethical issues inherent in the CQT polygraph which you can read more about here http://psych.utoronto.ca/~furedy/poldil.htm. Even if you are not a false positive and "passed" the exam it can be psychologically stressful. Understanding what they do and why should help to reduce that stress to some degree. Good luck. Here is Furedy's summary of these stresses:

The two horns of PD are damage the innocent examinee classified as deceptive, and damage to those examinee's psychological well being who are classified as non-deceptive to the relevant questions, and who are not even debriefed concerning their feelings of unease about issues raised by the comparison, so-called "control" questions.

-Marty