Posted by happyflower on December 26, 2005, at 6:38:31
In reply to Re: Is this what normal people do? » happyflower, posted by daisym on December 26, 2005, at 2:05:49
Thanks Daisy for helping me! The thing that triggered the memory was my burn accident I had in the kitchen, so I hope that won't happen again. LOL
The memory just doesn't have the "power" that it did when it first was triggered. So when I do think about it now, I think, yeah, it was bad, but I am safe now, I am okay, and it won't ever happen again.When I was suffering from PTSD, that started about a year ago, I couldn't compartmentlize the fear I had of my mother, it was affecting my life majorly.
I guess there is no such thing as "normal" because my T says that everyone has "stuff" or baggage fromt he past that can effect them. My T says I will never forget what happened to me, but he can help the memories become less intense with EMDR. I know I trust he will do what is best for me after I talk to him again about this. I think I am afraid of a fallout that happend the first and only time I tried EMDR. SOme much more intensed memories sufaced several hours after we did EMDR (this is rare by the way) and it was very intense and I had my DH to support me. Well I don't have anyone to support me, so I am afraid of that happening again and being alone with no one to hold me. So I am scared. I told my T that I was scared, but my session was already over by 10 minutes , so we didn't get into why I am scared, so we will discuss this this Thursday.
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