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i'll cast another vote for asking her directly rather than hazarding guesses. i hope you can get past your disappointment if you need...

Mod Note: @The_One - I've merged your 2 threads about your difficulty with your therapist to help members follow the conversation. If...

I don’t think I can afford to think it over for more than a year. Maybe I can work out seeing her other week. But yeah.

Yeah, I have to consider leaving my very long term therapist, but I’ve been considering it for a year maybe two. I want to keep doing...

Lol I am not doing that.

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No… you know what. What happened last week was actually pretty bad. Like I didn’t like how she just switched from my talk therapy to...

You may need to. I'd bring it up with her first and see if there isn't any way to move beyond it. But sometimes therapists just can't...

So I understand my therapists focus is EMDR and I know she loves EMDR. I agreed to do that and work up to it, so we did a couple...

yup. i subscribe to the notion that success is getting what you want. happiness is wanting what you get. when this feeling whelms me, i...

UMMM what your post is everything I needed to see and hear. And your right I shouldn’t use what I should be like as a tool to hurt...

I think the fact that you're sad makes it very clear you don't have everything. 'Cuz if you did? You'd be happy! I spent a long time in...

Privilege does not in any way imply happy. At all. The problem is that you are comparing yourself to her (which you acknowledged). And...

I think there's probably a lot in this. When I'm getting worn out, my tolerance of anyone and anything goes down the gurgler. It goes...

not to worry @librapisces4. i don't see even a bit of rudeness in the honesty to say you didn't understand, nor is it a shortcoming on...

I waffle back and forth on these concepts. On one hand, I find it a challenge relating to neurotypicals. On the other hand, alienation...

I’m sorry I don’t mean to be rude but I don’t understand what you’re saying.

Look it’s very layered. I think I’m not happy with my life and where I am right now. I want things to be different. I feel like she’s...

If her car accident impacted her she would’ve told me. But then again she used to be really private with her feelings and at one point I...

She is amazing. We do really click together and I know she’s excited to see me heal, whether that’s through EMDR or not. I know she’s...

I don’t know about your EMDR experience but the reason for all the resourcing before is because…it sucks and it’s hard and it’s not that...

Personally I’d rather know they are supervised then on their own with less supervision. Also the really clicking with is a game changer...

So I don’t wanna throw a pity party for me. I know life does suck it can be unfair it can be a bitch. I know I shouldn’t compare my...

Well I’ve been with this therapist for over 6 months (longer than with any other therapist) I really like her. But she’s only been...

Yeah that’s how I feel too. Luckily didn’t lose any close during the pandemic. It’s more after the pandemic people in my family started...

Oddly during the pandemic I didnt read much but have got back at it and had a friend build us a free little library. So keeping a free...

Idk if we’re technically even out of a pandemic but it still feels like that in Georgia we have gotten over the pandemic. I feel...

So I have had anxiety in some way or form ever since I was a kid . I just figured that out. From hair eating to OCD thoughts. It didn’t...

Remember that peoples experiences will vary a lot. It's a given that trauma work is hard work. It's not fun, it's not easy, it's not...

Reprocessing can last a while. Think of it like a card file, and its working its way through all your memories changing how you feel...

Yes I told her and she knows. I think I have a lot of power in this and I’m not even thinking about the target and the person in the...

Well I guess you were trying to make me feel better but I feel worse so thanks for that. :)

You said you suffered for 2 years ??? How long did you do EMDR??? I only did it for 2 sessions lol I don’t see how I’d be suffering for...

Okay I guess that’s the word for it dysregulation. I think I had a few things going on last week that didn’t help with the feeling...

has anyone ever felt like they have everything? They should be grateful? But still not happy? It really makes me sad.

Oh okay well I guess then I should not do any EMDR for six months then. I just feel like it really brought up shit which it’s supposed...

Actually, medication changes often require a 6 month stop in trauma processing. Which doesn’t mean stopping trauma therapy full stop...

I’m gonna talk to her again next week. Last week I told her how I felt after the second session the week previous and we just talked and...

Have you talked to your therapist about how you've been feeling after your sessions? I've heard that with EMDR it's common to feel worse...

I did two sessions of EMDR therapy and though it wasn’t the worst feeling it definitely feels bad. I don’t feel like myself after my...

Normal after every session, in my experience. I usually blank the whole day for trauma therapy, and don’t work (or schedule anything...

True that’s right. If I can finish a few targets and get more confidence I might ask my therapist if we can conquer the phobia and her...

Maybe you made the right choice in not starting with it. Now that you’ve experienced EMDR you can work a few more targets out and then...

I really want to work on a phobia I have which is emetophobia and that’s what I was gonna start on. But the day came and I started...

I don’t remember feeling numb, but that’s a pretty constant state for me. I felt like for about 48 hours that my brain was having its...

for me? Yep. It lasts about 24 hours so I've learned to take the day after EMDR as a total sit on the couch and watch cartoon day...

I feel like from earlier in my life it was alot of emotional associations but also fact based too. I feel like a lot of my trauma also...

We’ve done quite a lot. plus I’m on lexapro and I feel like that’s helping me move through all this without too much anxiety and fear...

I’m starting EMDR and my target was when my ex told me there’s better looking girls out there than me. We started with that but my...