EMDR has been pretty amazing.

When I first started meeting with my therapist, I was having major separation anxiety from my husband. When we met, I was suicidal and having huge anxiety issues and all that. Being with him, touching him, was the best way to calm my anxiety. Later in our marriage, every time he'd leave the house, I'd feel huge anxiety. My therapist and I did some EMDR about that, and it wasn't a problem at all anymore. In fact, now I may be on the other side where I'm too okay with having alone time lol.

The other time it really helped was about my son's colic. For five months, on an average day, he'd sleep maybe 5 hours. (Most new babies sleep 20 hours.) He'd spend the rest of the time screaming as if a pack of wild wolves were eating him (probably 7 hours), crying (4 hours), and fussing (5 hours), or something like that. It was absolute hell and agony. My parents and grandparents said they'd never seen anything like it and didn't know it was physically possible for a baby to be that way. It left me with PTSD. I could barely watch him because I was so terrified that if he started crying he'd never stop, and his colic would start over. It was a huge issue, interfering with my life every single day, making me unable to be a mom. My therapist didn't realize how bad it was until my son was 2.5. Then we started EMDR. By the time he turned 3, I was able to spend hours every day with him, mostly enjoying the whole time, looking at how beautiful his would was, playing with him, responding to him emotionally. It changed my life.