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I have been using distraction and have reached out for support when I started feeling like I wanted to isolate myself. I'm getting a lot better at resisting the urge to isolate when I know it's not safe and reaching out to people. I was able to talk to a friend about today's session and a lot of...

Therapy today was good and bad? I was able to talk about parts of one of my rapes that I wasn't able to discuss out loud before or talk to anyone about. I also ended up processing a memory of my brother abusing me that we had been working on previously. My therapist asked me to go to what...

I will try. I'm trying to occupy my mind as best as I can at the moment but so far no success :/

I can't stop replaying that one scene in my head. Pinned on the wall moving my head side to side to avoid his face. He whispered in my ear "you're going to be mine tonight" He was right and I was never mine. Every time I've been hurt I'm theirs. I'm my brothers, I'm Michael's, I'm Brennan's, I'm...

Thank you :)

I've been with my therapist for three months now which may seem like a short time to start EMDR but I really trust her. She specializes in PTSD, trauma, and eating disorders. I have full confidence that she knows what she's doing. Her speciality is EMDR and so far it's been going well. :)

Thanks! :)

Hey everyone! I'm new. My name is Tab and i'm 19 years old. I am apart of a few online support groups and forums and each one I have found very helpful. However, each one I use for different purposes and was glad to be able to add this forum to my list. I found this website while searching for...

The process is extremely difficult so I instinctively want to run and quit but I definitely trust my therapist.

I only have therapy on Tuesdays but I am able to text, call, or email her whenever I need. I often email a couple days after therapy if I'm not doing good. The one memory suggestion is interesting because my therapist is the opposite. She tells me if my mind hops memories to go with it and let...

I also had random little spurts of nausea on Wednesday night. Now that I know it's coming hopefully it won't scare me as much.

I hope as the sessions go on I'll be able to accept my body freaking out. It would go a lot smoother if I was able to be kind to myself instead of beating myself up for the symptoms I can't change. Often randomly if I even slightly think of one of my traumas I'll dry heave. At first that one...

I started with one memory but ended up surfing through 4

I just had my first EMDR session on Tuesday and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I had a lot of negative effects so far and was just wondering if anyone else has felt this way before. Our first session I was very skeptical that anything would happen. My therapist uses the little buzzers and...