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Originally Posted by TrailRunner14
Thank you for saying this. I've shared with my counselor that if something happened that was so bad I couldn't handle it then, I sure don't want to go back and see it now! What would it do to me now? There is a fear that it would shatter who I am.
That may be irrational, but it is the truth of my heart.
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I SO agree with this! One of my ts says that I am afraid of my feelings and she is right.
But EMDR has helped me. In fact, one of the things that I like about it is that lots of memories get sorted out at one time and then they don't bug me anymore.
My T also uses headphones and buzzy things that you hold. I understand that the light moving can be bad for someone with migraine or seizures.
One example of something that I sorted out thru EMDR is a job change that is coming up that I was dissociating over. In an EMDR session, I realized that those feelings are rooted in my experiences when my baby brother was born-like 50 years ago. I still have some work to do with those experiences, but my job change is now okay and I am not switching or even stressing over it.
With EMDR you start by identifying a feeling off of a list (negative cognition) and then identifying what would be the opposite feeling off of another list. At the end of the session, you repeat the good feeling several times and contain the emotions that are stirred up. I have found myself to be a lot less worked up between EMDR sessions than I get between other sessions.