Hey all, thanks for the welcomes and hugs. I appreciate it. It's weird going from forum old salt to newbie (especially while my posts are still in the quarantine phase)!

I will certainly take things with the new T relatively slow. I have to remind myself that, however much I like her, this is a new relationship. She's only just getting to know my quirks and poker tells and sense of humor, whereas my old T and I had a total shorthand going on. It certainly made communication easier not having to fill in all that backstory.

Content, it's good to hear that you've had positive experiences with EMDR. Congrats on grad school! And as far as relating to one another's DX, we all struggle more or less with the same challenge--chemical imbalance--we just each express ours differently. But humans like categorizing things, and doctors like categorizing units within categories, so we have the DSM.

I was thinking about EMDR targets because that's the homework I was given by my T. She wanted me to just identify some snapshot memories so that we could find a place to begin to process. I have some bothersome themes that need to be broken into component parts. She did warn to stop if the memories became particularly distressing outside of the therapy environment, but it's kind of tough to shut it down at will. I might not have the skills yet.