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I started this monday doing a good emdr session trying to uproot my childhood trauma. Very hard to keep myself grounded. I kept slipping in and out of the memories. Very scary. It requires a great deal of mental energy. So much is blocked. I think I don't want to fully tap into the blocked memories. I just want to experience them enough to be able to say to my abuser that they no longer have control of my life.
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Aren't you afraid that the EMDR will bring up all of that childhood trauma? Why I don't trust EMDR as a therapy technique, is that it's like the therapist gives the patient the tool to open the door to their past trauma, but then leaves the patient alone to deal with that past trauma by themselves.
I find EMDR to be a very irresponsible form of therapy. You can't reprocess past trauma. EMDR is the worst form of therapy for trauma treatment, I believe. I believe EMDR increases a person's disassociation from their trauma and further damages their psyche as a result. I think EMDR can cause people to experience massive panic attacks or worse, bouts of rage and crying. I don't view EMDR as a whole-brain healing system. I view it as an antagonizer. If you really want to safely and effectively deal with your childhood trauma so that it doesn't create havoc on you autonomic nervous system (giving you panic attacks, worse depression, fits of rage), then I would ask you to consider alternative methods of therapy like cognitive behavior therapy, or dialectical behavioral therapy or even self-regulated therapy for PTSD. I just view EMDR as a misleading and dangerous therapy technique. It's like, giving a patient a stick and telling them to poke the hornet's nest without giving the patient any protective clothing to keep them from getting stung and having an allergic reaction. I hope it works for you. I urge you to reconsider other forms of therapy that are more whole-brain-body based as EMDR is not. All EMDR is activates the trauma center of the brain and leaves the patient reeling from those psychological and physiological effects. |
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I rely mostly on DBT and CBT for my PTSD. It is helpful, along with Buddhist breathing and prayer. I do not take Klonopin any longer, as it exacerbates my depression.
That said, I have always believed that the eyes play a critical role in mood. Specifically, eye position. People who are depressed nearly always gaze downward. It occurred to me twenty years ago in one of my massive depressions that this might be an aggravating factor, rather than a sign/symptom. I started practicing elevating my gaze and, lo and behold, it does help me. No question on this at all. So, personally, since the LGN and occipital cortices are hard-wired to areas of the brain involved with mood/affect,/memory, etc. the underlying concept in EMDR does, to me, maka a bit of sense. But I know very little about its ins and outs. __________________ When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always found them--Rodney Dangerfield |
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My therapist is very good. She took several sessions to teach me calming and coping techniques that I used at home during my daily stressors. Then I took those techniques back to the therapists office and use them to navigate and manipulate my trauma. Then, I use them again to calm myself before I leave the office. I agree it is extremely intense. You must be mentally strong to do this, but it is so worth it. I have seen dramatic permanent relief from my childhood trauma!
You must read up on EMDR before you start. You must be prepared, like you said, to experience total recall of your trauma. I have years of abuse that I am sorting through. The main childhood trauma that I am talking about is one that I am approaching slowly and methodically because it is so graphic. That is why I am deciding right now to go in just enough to have a voice to say NO! I need this really badly, because it is keeping me from progressing in life. |
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