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Originally Posted by beauflow
Hi, just wondering on people's thoughts on the subject of "why a therapist wouldn't do emdr with a patient "
Not looking for absolutes, but just thoughts on the subject...
I can find a worlds worth of knowledge on why therapist do emdr with ptsd patients but am struggling to find pointers on people who aren't truly candidates that have ptsd or cptsd.
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My personal experience: I have had three therapists so far say we would do emdr but not one of them did it with me..... I'm just trying to understand possible why not ,as none of them explained why not.
Am I always so "too stressed out" that they feel we can start? I'm just very confused...
Has anyone else experienced the talk of emdr being a possible treatment but it's never followed through by the professional?
Just wondering
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1. EMDR is contraindicated for alexithymic people.
2. EMDR in general is contraindicated for people who are not yet ready to face their emotional memories. All the emotional details of the traumatic memories. You do have to get to that point in your processing if you are not ready yet.
My personal opinion is frankly that if you are ready to face the emotional details, you don't even need EMDR anymore. Because at that point it's pretty simple really compared to how it is before that point. You just need old fashioned processing of emotions while using strong grounding practices, whatever personally works for you to ground you. I think EMDR is just one way of grounding.
Strictly my personal opinion.
PS: And yes, EMDR is stressful, and so is you working on the emotional memories with any kind of strong grounding practice. So yeah, you have to be able to take the stress too.