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    Dissociation from emdr

    I am glad you are getting help. I have been in and out of counseling for 17 years. I could have brought a really nice truck with what I have spent in therapy.
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    Dissociation from emdr

    Have you tried somatic therapy?
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    Childhood Did your abuser ever become angry

    I was raped as a child. I just remembered my abuser would get really angry if my body didn't react to sexual contact especially intercourse. If I didn't orgasm he would get mad. Does it make anyone else angry that you did react to the abuse as in an orgasm? Does it make anyone else angry that we...
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    Dissociation from emdr

    I actually stopped doing EMDR because I felt I was being re-traumatized. The body sensations are the worst. Because feeling what happened back then is horrible. So it's pretty much like going back through the abuse. I disassociated so bad during EMDR. I disassociated for a week right before my...
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    Sufferer Recovery sucks. childhood and adult sexual abuse.

    I disassociate in horrible ways. I had EMDR found out there was more than one person involved in my abuse and disassociated my way through almost a whole week then went on vacation and didn't feel like myself again until I saw the ocean.
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    Sufferer Recovery sucks. childhood and adult sexual abuse.

    My therapist does a lot of grounding with me, but for the life of me it doesn't work as well when I am alone. Some thing that has really helped , I think it is called polarity points don't quote me. Like placing your hand on your stomach and the other of your chest and you can use your forehead...
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    Does anyone else "put off" flashbacks until later?

    I repressed my sexual abuse as child. I have been dealing with memories off and on for 17 years, I am 34. I do assessment with inmates to place them into an appropriate program. We go through drug usage questions, a risjk to re-offend assessment, and a mental health assessment which includes a...
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    Sufferer Recovery sucks. childhood and adult sexual abuse.

    Hello, I am new here but not new to trauma. I am a survivor of childhood and adult sexual abuse. I am currently trying a new therapy called Somatic therapy. After going through EMDR and I think it re-traumatized me. Through EMDR what I thought was one person when I was a child turned into three...
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    I feel broken in my relationship because of ptsd

    Oh, I have been there. I only usually get triggered while being intimate, until lately but that's another post. I have full blown flashbacks during sex. Which usually involves crying and memories that I had never remembered until that moment that shakes me to my core. After that no one wants to...
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