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I think some members have tried this. I've had several sessions
so far. Sometimes between sessions I have vivid dreams and feelings. Sometimes I feel more anxious. I don't know if its working. I know some people experience relief from the trauma but I have not felt that. When the therapist takes me thru a trigger and we do the bilateral vibration supposedly thoughts and feelings will stream thru but often times its just blank, I don't see anything and no thoughts come up. Have any of you experienced this. Is it still working on the non verbal level. Posted on 07/03/09, 10:07 am |
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same question - what is it ? 
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EMDR is a therapy designed for help releasing trauma.Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that was developed to resolve symptoms resulting from disturbing and unresolved life experiences. It uses a structured approach to address past, present, and future aspects of disturbing memories. The approach was developed by Francine Shapiro to resolve the development of trauma-related disorders as resulting from exposure to a traumatic or distressing event. Some therepist use tapping, some use alternating vibration. It helps the brain process the trauma and release it so that your not stuck in it
continually. I have read other posts relating to members on this site who have used this type of therapy.
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I had 8 sessions of that once (since i've done everything there is to do). It didn't help me at all, but the one thing i found interesting was that memories of my mother came up constantly and i was able to just talk on and on about her. It really surprised me since i never remember anything. None of them were repressed, just stuff i hadn't thought about in years. I stopped going because i didn't see the point in talking about those things. I know what happened, i know how i feel about it, and i know my mother still smothers me into not having my own life. I hope you have better luck with it than i did. Best wishes.
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I went through EMDR and yes, I had deep, deep feelings that I cannot express.
This is a powerful tool. I have PTSD and I have a 'delayed reaction' to powerful thoughts and stuff that is said 'out of the blue' to deliberately hurt me, in the past and even now. Sometimes I remember days, weeks, months or years after the EMDR sessions. I would go through it again because it exposes us to the reality of the horror's we went through. I am on the brink of what I believe is near recovery. I have worked very hard to come so far.
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So are you saying that during the EMDR sessions it seems
like nothing comes up.for you At first it seemed like it was maybe effective as I could visualize in the session and see different scenes and changes but now I feel like maybe I've reached stalemate and can[t see anything unfolding. I have felt more anxiety though and that does not feel good She always asks me at the end of the session "what do you think you learned today" and sometimes I feel like, well, I don't know.
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