I couldn't do EMDR. Either I would lock up and nothing would happen, or I would totally fall apart and then feel like I'd been retraumatized all over again. It would leave me physically exhausted and emotionally all worked up, to where I could not concentrate on my job and normal daily stuff I needed to do. It also made it impossible for me to contain the distress at the end of the EMDR session. It spilled out between sessions and it was too hard to remain functional.