Posted by kezia on December 14, 2007, at 19:56:19
In reply to Re: First EMDR session next week - what to expect » kezia, posted by star008 on December 12, 2007, at 12:59:23
Thanks so much taking the time to respond to my post and for sharing your experiences with EMDR with me as well as the good advice. I think my T's plan is to start as you have suggested - with something that isn't going to be too traumatic and affect my sense of being. I'm sorry that your second experience proved so traumatic. It must have been very scary to go through that :-( Why is it that something that can ultimately help us in the long term can be so devastating and tramautic in the short term?
Thanks for the link to the forum as well. I will read through posts to get a better sense of how others have reacted and responded. I'm sure that will help some.
> http://www.behavior.net/bolforums/forumdisplay.php?f=16
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> Kezia,
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> Check out the forum that i listed above.. It is an EMDR forum run by one of the big EMDR people. It will teach you alot about it.
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> My personal experience with it-- WEll it worked wonderfully for an experience that I had a couple of yers ago involving a dead body..The experience was horrible and it haunted me..The memories were "in my face" all the time.. I saw images of it and it wouldn't leave me..EMDR took it away from me..Although I remember it well the emotional charge was not there anymore.. It worked right away. But, (there always has to be a "but"), huh?? lol.. This issue was different than some other issues I tried to work on. It did not effect my worth as a person, it did not effect the way I felt about myself the way some early memories do. IT was not something that was done to me, just somethng I witnessed,
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> When I tried EMDR for childhood trauma it was very traumatic. It took me days to get over it and I have a gret fear of doing EMDR again.. I need EMDR to get over the EMDR!!! I have a dissociative disorder and was not prepared for EMDR. It can be done but you need to do alot of ground work before attempting it. I was stuck in an inner child for days and days. I split off and couldn't gt back into my adult.
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> I would suggest trying it on something kind of like my first expereince..Something that doesn't effect your sense of being. Try it with something easier and see how it goes. Make sure your T screens you for dissociative disorders.. I didn't know I had one. I think it does work but can be very traumatic if you are not prepared for it. I don't know if I will ever do it again. I don't have the inner resources that you need to get through it and to deal with overpowering feelings.
> I am not a very open person either.. It was hard to expose myself to EMDR but I went with it anyway.
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> So.. I guess in my opinion, it does work but it depends what you are working on and the inner resources that you have. Good luck with your work..
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