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Originally Posted by WarmFuzzySocks
(((Oh, Argo))) That sounds horrifying. 
I am grateful you shared your experience. While I am cautiously optimistic, the whole thing seems odd to me, and part of me thinks, "Don't drink the Kool-aid!"
How long did it take to realize it was making things worse? (Not even sure of that's the right question...how many sessions? Or whatever?) Only if you don't mind sharing that... |
Don't let my experience dissuade you, necessarily. I wish I hadn't done it, but I'm not ruined forever or anything. And other people swear by EMDR.
It was bad from the start and just never got any better. I stuck through it for almost three months of weekly sessions, maybe 7 of which were actual EMDR sessions. I stuck with it because "don't leave prematurely" is like EMDR commandment number 1. I'm sure plenty of people (including my own therapist) would chalk my bad experience up to leaving before therapy was "done."
And maybe that's true. It's probably true.
But sometimes it seems like a convenient way to explain away failure, especially given that it's not a time-limited therapy. Nobody can say, "You must complete 10 sessions." They say "you must keep going till you're better." I mean, substitute "purple hat" for EMDR...
"My PTSD still hurts"
"Well that's because you took the purple hat off too soon."
"But I wore the purple hat for a year."
"Well, you were supposed to wear it until your PTSD felt better."