No sky. Like I already stated It doesn't work for me because it does not address the moving repressed memories into my conscious level of thinking.

REpressed memory is a memory where I have no idea what that memory is.

If I don't know what that memory is for example Snakes drive me to panic. I can go into a pet store and see the cats and dogs and fish but when it comes to the snake tanks I enter high anxiety and panic to the point where I end up dissociating. I have no idea why I react this way. What I do know is that I do have a repressed memory of some kind that involves a snake because I find drawings and so on.

But I havbe no conscious memory of why I am deathly afraid of snakes.

So now add EDMR to this. I go into a pet store see a snake panic and ok find a place to sit tap my forehead with a finger, move my eyeballs constantly and repeat "This will no longer bother me"

Hey it may calm me in that moment but the next time I see a snake what happens -

I panic again

and the next time

I panic again

and the next time

I panic again

Why? Because th e source of my panicing - the repressed memory is not being taken care of. That repressed memory is still repressed (unremembered) and burried and as long as it is I will always be sent into a panic every time I encounter a snake.

So EDMR for me does nothing I panic now when I encounter a snake and 20 years of doing EDMR if I try it I would still be panicing when I encounter a snake.

for me EDMR is kind of like putting a band aid on - good for a quick fix but not for long term.

for me I prefer the long term solutions of locating the repressed memories and remembering what happened to me (co consciousness and integration) so that those memories no longer and forever will no longer bother me over the short term quick fix of band aids such as therapy approaches that take care of the surface problems but not the guts of the problems. I did the band aid approaches and where did I end up - with my son in foster care because I was only taking care of the surface problems so the guts kept coming back to tear mine and my sons life apart.

EDMR doesn't work for me because I have to take care of the guts not just put a band aid on the surface panic attacks.

Which is why I have the type of therapy program that I do where I have muliple goals that work together - relaxation visualizations tapes made by my therapist for the panic attacks, journaling, artwork, sensory stimulation, memory recall work, therapy sessions group therapy and so on. All geared for working on each and every aspect of each and every one of my problems that has been specifically set up for me and my problems.

That is what works for me.