Posted by Dinah on January 1, 2004, at 15:23:07
In reply to Re: EMDR - sent you an e-mail (nm) » Dinah, posted by zenhussy on December 29, 2003, at 3:29:00
Thank you so much. I've done a bit of thinking, now I've recovered from Monday, and I'd really like to give the EMDR a shot. And I am going to insist, even at the risk of alienating my therapist a bit (not a lot, I'd drop the whole idea first), that the EMDR therapist have at least a level II certification.
I think the positive statement about myself that I'd like to aim for is "I am strong enough to handle feeling my emotions."
The trouble is that I'm not sure that's a legitimate goal to work on. Experience tends to tell me that realistically, I'm not....
I'm a bit concerned again though. I borrowed the Shapiro book and she seems to only talk about eliminating strong reactions to memories. My reactions to my memories could generally now be rated at a zero on the scale she uses. If that's the purpose of the treatment, it won't do a lot of good.
So I think I'll use this thread to cobble together an explanation of what I'm looking for and bring it to the first session with the EMDR therapist to see if it's even reasonable to expect the opposite of what Shapiro described.
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