I experienced EMDR for the first time with my counselor last night during my appointment. The holiday weekend was one I would not like to repeat. It had been triggering repeatedly more times than I could explain.

One seemed to stand out and he asked me if I would be open to try EMDR an see if it would help. It is amazing to me the peace I felt after we finished leaving his office and it stayed with me the rest of the evening. I also slept well last night.

Today, there are fragments that are coming to me. They aren't associated with what we talked about and worked through last night, I don't think. I do have a weird kind of headache but there is still a feeling of that peace left.

I have a couple of questions, if anyone can relate.

If there is a memory/fragment that cuts off, with no end, no answer to what the end result of the fragment was - can EMDR work with that?

Does EMDR somehow open the door for the rest of the fragment to become known?

The fragment is a piece of the memory, I think I'm seeing myself dissociate and then the tv shuts off. There's nothing else there.

Would EMDR process what you can recall without the rest of it? How can that give you peace and resolve? How can you see it as a past memory without an ending?

I hope that makes sense.