Soliaree, I had some repressed memories I recovered the first year I did therapy with my current T. We were doing EMDR in therapy, and one night at home, I just recovered these really bad memories from my childhood. I told T and he was not surprised. He said it is very common for this to happen--that the relief provided by EMDR can be immense once you start and the memories inside your brain just "line up" waiting to be processed. I can picture all the memories jostling each other in the brain, shouting "Me next, me next! My turn, my turn!" When I recovered these repressed memories, it took me a while before we could get to the point of doing EMDR on them because they were so intense and shameful I couldn't share them right away with T. But finally I could and we did EMDR on them and it really helped. One memory at a time...
I think your memories will come out when they are ready. No need to rush things or go digging for the buried experiences.
Good luck.
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