EMDR AND PTSD

EMDR AND PTSD

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• EMDR
• AND
• PTSD

[vicvicbitter]

I lost my legs 20 years ago in a crappy accident I adjusted very well physically, but mentally I;ve had severe depression, anxiety, nervous breakdowns, etc. EMDR was very painful, but extremely beneficial. You have to go through the pain. I still suffer from PTSD, its just not as bad as it was before EMDR.

[kcestarte]

Thank you for sharing your story. I am sorry to hear about your stuggles but with time and counseling believe you will be able to come to terms with your tradegy and find peace. EMDR has worked for many and even if it only lessens the PTSD by a small percentage, it is better than where you were at before the technique. I hope you are continuing with counseling also as this is just as important in the healing process.

[vicvicbitter]

I can't handle any more counselling. Sometimes the cure is more painful than the illness. Maybe its better to hide, sometimes it is very painful, sometimes it is.How do yu explain this? Its lke trying to explain phantom pains to a non-amputee. EMDR is powerful, and beneficial, but I can't go back to that just yet.

[kcestarte]

Yes, you are correct that it is painful to relive your experience in therapy, but working through that will help you reach your goals and put you in a better place in the long run.....oh and go somewhere where you are alone and it is quiet and just letting out a good, loud scream and cry will relieve a lot of pent up anger and sorrow as well. My prayers are with you.

[neuron23]

As I mentioned initially, and you have confirmed my hypothesis, you're not really interested in learning anything.

You wish to draw attention to yourself by dismissing EMDR and ridiculing the experience of others. It's called being an 'attention whore'. That's why you began your first post with, and I quote, "lol".

I'm not sure which is more evident, your transparency, your ignorance, or your insecurity.

By the way, the word is "alters" not "altars". Dumbass. Oops. Did I say that out loud?

[vicvicbitter]

I've been diagnosed with PTSD, I lost both my legs, the people at work say that's insignificant, that my problems are just me being a bludger, lazy, not a team player. I also have go and get fucked disorder, they can get fucked.

[MissLink]

You can't write off EMDR without even giving it a chance just by saying "well no one knows exactly how it works". Think of it this way. Today's top neurologists still don't understand how the entirety of the human brain even works. And yet it does, for all of us, or else we wouldn't be alive. Just because we don't understand doesn't mean it doesn't work.

EMDR's not a perfect treatment method. But there is no perfect treatment method. If EMDR works for you, that's all that matters in the end.

[PriceyFilms2504]

Does this shit work

[vicvicbitter]

@dewdropsnsnowflakes When you have EMDR you re-live the anxiety, and a good practicitioner can help, some how re-living it reduces the anxiety. I found out later I also have bi-polar 2 , and i needed a lot more than emdr...medication, psychiatrist, the loved ones...Half the battle is knowing the problem, the rest is dealing with it. My PTSD will never be cured but it no longer rules and ruins my life. . Good luck. Contact me any time & if I'm

on-line I'll help if I can. :-}

[dewdropsnsnowflakes]

@vicvicbitter Hey. What did you experience in regard to 'very painful' 'through the pain' during your EMDR therapy. I am about to start it and I am scared to death already. I am a 'basket case' already and if I get 'worse' trying to get better...I don't know if I can handle it. Appreciate your comments. Thanks.

[keith1y]

@neuron23 ok one published study - "Pursuing Peace by Fernando Garzon" researcher into efficacy of some christian counselling approaches. The key new thing about the methods he has been researching, is that the underlying model of how things work and how things get broke is correct. So you CAN actually say how these methods work, rather than guessing.

e.g. The emotional belief "I am going to die" remembered in the context of an original trauma, will be the root cause of a phobia.

[keith1y]

@TheLoShow2010 If your PTSD is due to one traumatic incident, then it can be sorted in one session. If your PSTD is caused by 900 different traumatic situations, then you will need 900 sessions. I have been doing this successfully every day for the past 10 years.

No one knows actually how EMDR works, because what they say, amounts to nothing more than a guess.

If you believed "it was my fault",& have a realization that "It wasn't".It is the realization of truth that cures,not moving your eyes.

[keith1y]

@keith1y I was speaking from personal experience, it is difficult to give references because of client confidentiality. I work by actually understanding the exact impact of the trauma, and working to resolve it. We are usually able to cover one major traumatic incidence per session. I work with victims of sadistic abuse amongst others. EMDR works by essentially getting the intellectual mind out of the way and enabling the emotional mind to process stuff more naturally.

[TheLoShow2010]

@keith1y EMDR is the gold star standard and there is NO therapy on the planet that cures PTSD in one session. And if you do your research you will find out there are many people who know how and why EMDR works and is effective. It makes both sides of your brain work and work together taking the emotion out of the memories.

[keith1y]

@hobocakes I see lots of people saying EMDR takes lots of sessions, why do that when using other methods you can find what is broken and fix it in one session. As I said before my concern over EMDR is that no one actually knows how it supposedly works. The underlying model of how trauma effects people that is used to understand EMDR is wrong.