Posted by Noni on March 28, 2004, at 5:44:34
In reply to EMDR has anyone tried it? , posted by john26 on October 9, 2003, at 3:17:06
I've had a few sessions of EMDR (my therapist suggested it for dealing with depression and childhood family-type stuff, although most of the rough times in my life seem to have been teens and twenties). It has gone in some interesting directions, for example, discovering that my father behaved inappropriately towards me (though no abuse), and that I was bullied at school (I hadn't associated being picked on in front of people by prefects as bullying). However, nothing really substantial has come of it; perhaps I am expecting revelations when really there are none there, but it just seems a variation on the theme of my normal therapy to me. My 'safe place' doesn't really work for me as the EMDR doesn't (or hasn't yet) caused me enough pain to need to go there, yet when I am really down and cutting myself, my safe place doesn't work because it makes me realise how very far from reality and the here and now it is and that just makes it feel worse.
Does any of this make any sense? Maybe I haven't been exploring the right things with EMDR (alcoholic mother, sexual abuse from boyfriend, abortion, rape) and that's why nothing outstanding has happened, or maybe I have not been doing it long enough, or maybe I am expecting too much of it.
I've read up on it, too - positive and negative accounts - and yet, at the end of the day, I'm not sure whether it is beneficial or not. Has anyone else had similar experiences? How long have people been doing EMDR sessions before things happen and benefits are felt?
Noni
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