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Originally Posted by Silversand
Has anyone's T attempted or did EMDR with them? We've been in therapy with this particular T for 5 plus years. He trains other therapist to do EMDR, gives seminars, etc. So far, he's never attempted it with us because of the dissociation. But he now feels we are ready to try it. Some of us are confused. We can't understand what he's saying. He wants to start with the moment of conception but none of us were the one who was in the womb. We told him that today and, for now, the only way it makes sense to us is to say the body - when referring to the one who was carried in the womb by the bio mother since none of us were. He gave us his usual spewl about us all being in one body, still....not sure what is going to happen. But we are wanting to move forward and have told him this. This is what he thinks we need to do.
A Protector
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EMDR starting with the moment of conception? I would be confused too.. unless the reason they are wanting to do EMDR around the topic of conception is because the client is wanting to get pregnant and has anxiety about concieving..
the basic premise of EMDR is to work through something that brings you anxiety by using skills that tap into parts of the brain that will allow you to become de- sensitized from what ever is triggering the anxiety/panic.
Wait a moment I just had a thought... instead of the literal body / baby conception could he mean he wants you to figure out what the trauma was that caused your alters to come into being? and then do EMDR around that triggering/traumatic event that caused you to dissociate?
let me give you an example using a non actual triggering and hopefully safe event for you...lets pretend one of my triggers is the sunshine, and one day as a child I got locked in a car on a hot very sun shiney day, the sunshine triggers me into dissociating and I ended up with an alter named Yellow (for the color of the sun)
because of this hypothetical triggering traumatic event every time I hypothetically am outside I have anxiety/ panic problems and dissociate.
I go to a treatment provider who wants to try EMDR using the conception of my alter Yellow...
ok yellow came into being because of being locked in a car on a sun shiney day.. so to do EMDR first I talk with the treatment provider about whats going to happen...he says we are going to talk, you are going to hold this and hands me an object. every time I start to have anxiety during the conversation the treatment provider is going to push a button and the object in my hand is going to vibrate, this will distract me from being afraid of what we are talking about .. the traumatic event that caused Yellow to come into being. in other words Yellows conception. there will also be a bell sound and something for my eyes to focus on, the bell, vibrating object and my eyes focusing on something will retrain my brain to not fear the triggering traumatic event, this will result in my no longer dissociating when I encounter triggers associated with that traumatic event..
like I said this was made up/ pretend situation but I placed it in an EMDR therapy session...
your treatment provider may mean something different, you will need to check with them to be sure what they meant and how they plan on doing the actual EMDR with you.