Posted by Dinah on December 25, 2003, at 13:10:25
In reply to Re: EMDR - I may be trying it » Dinah, posted by zenhussy on December 25, 2003, at 2:26:12
I'm going to wait until after the holidays to call her, and that's hard. I tend to be a person who makes a decision and jumps on it.
I hope you don't have to be a believer to have it work, because I'm pretty skeptical. But I was encouraged by the stories I read here to bring it up again. For some reason I had always thought that EMDR was for neutralizing traumatic memories, which I have no real problem doing. I wasn't really interested. But it sounds from what everyone is saying that it can also be used to attach feelings to the sterile memories of things that probably should be remembered as traumatic? That would be far more helpful. I tend to store my memories such that all feelings are stripped from them first. If I could integrate the feelings I think it would contribute to moving past a certain blockage I feel in therapy.
But like I said, I'm skeptical.
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