Posted by happyflower on July 5, 2005, at 8:19:18
In reply to Re: how do you handle swinging between extremes? » partlycloudy, posted by TamaraJ on July 4, 2005, at 17:36:33
> Re the EMRD, do you need to spill your guts and talk about deeply personal things? Or, can you talk in general terms about things that might be bothering you, and how those things make you feel?
The cool thing about EMDR is that you don't have to spill your guts. In fact an EMDR tech can do the work without even knowing what the painful memory is. You can say like "one day in a dark hallway". You do have to THINK about it while he is doing the EMDR, but you don't have to tell the T all the details of the memory. Or you can if you want to, for me it is important for me for my T to know what the memory is. EMDR has been very helpful with my past. It has changed my life.
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