EMDR uses eye movement to help process traumas that have not been processed. In a study of the brain of someone who experienced trauma they noticed that all the activity resulting from trauma is in the back part of the brain. Our brains process during "rem" sleep where the brain processes our daily activities and experiences and connects them to the area of the brain that has skills to file and process. The reason they use therapy that involves eye movement is it reduces the impact an unprocessed trauma experiences in the brain. We do not forget these events, yet, what this therapy helps with is greatly reducing the affects of these experiences that tend to continue to keep troubling the individual in their lives.

I am engaging in a therapy that is using eye movement that is like EMDR but includes more than just recalling events and the therapy I am taking is called Accelerated Resolution Therapy. I do get tired doing it and am tired for a day or two, however, I have noticed how this therapy reduces these traumatic event's causing me to be much LESS stressed and uncomfortable discussing them. I have noticed improvement. Doing this therapy along with some talk therapy is better than just talk therapy alone.