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Hi Community. I haven't been on these boards for quite a while. A couple of weeks ago, my therapist announced to me (and others I know) that he is taking a "break" for a couple of months and by then will make a decision if this break is temporary or permanent. We have been working together...

BTW @lostforgottensoul, what did your therapist do when you had that flashback in session?

Thanks for answering. I let my therapist know via text that something weird happened. But sometimes he is over busy and I would need to remind him to respond to me. This may be on of those times and since it's not affecting me in a crippling way we can talk about it at next session. I'm not...

This very much applies to me. I don't know how to allow that to come up and out. It seems impossible.

I completely understand what you are experiencing. I remembered a rape from 6th grade that I couldn't believe actually happened, but my body had alot to say about that. Some times I still revert to the thought that it couldn't have really happened, but my therapist asked me "if it's not real...

Hi everyone. I have been working on sexual assault trauma for nearly 4 years now. Been doing EMDR. I feel like it has been pretty successful, but very hard work. My T says that I'm angry underneath it all. He has said this about me from day one, but we have been unsuccessful at bringing that...

Hi there. I am still doing emdr. It is full of ups and downs. Recently we have changed the way we are doing the process as I was getting too lost in the memories and feeling suicidal. I don't mean for that to scare you. I can tell that some of my old scripts are being re-written. I'm reacting...

I have been in emdr for 4 years now. Repressed memories came up of a sexual assault when I was in 6th grade by an older, bigger boy. I never told anyone. I suffer intense body memories. Both during emdr and in between sessions. It does eventually go away. I'm just coming off of an episode...

Thanks for the reply Sheila. He is aware. I know he wants to protect me. I tried to ask him why we couldn't just work on this right now today and his response was that it was more complex than that and it would take more than one more session to work through so he wanted to make sure I was...

Ok - this is the only place I can air this out. First let me say that I believe in meds. I've been on Zoloft now for about 4 years. Everyone who needs them should take them. I personally don't like taking them, but I've done it to survive my trauma therapy and keep my job. Starting about 2...

So, I've been in emdr therapy now for almost 4 years. My therapist and I have been through hell and mostly back together. We have discussed body memories in places I would never discuss with anyone else, and, you know done the therapy thing for a long time. We have been working through a...

Romans12:2b ...instead,fix your attention on God. You will be changed from the inside out.

I understand what you are saying. My therapist and I go back and forth from me feeling completely supported to me hating him. I have been seeing him for three years. I think sometimes we forget that therapists are only human. They have their own stuff going on at home, at work plus listening to...

It's nice to see a conversation about this. My situation was more complicated than most. I have met completely healthy pastors families. It's not easy to be a pastor and raise children. When I wrote that post I was processing through some very traumatic memories in therapy. As an adult I have...

Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've posted here as sometimes it was too triggering to read the struggles of others. I'm back today looking for shared experiences. I have been in emdr therapy for PTSD for almost 3 years now. We've worked through several traumas, but have uncovered a...

My trauma relates specifically to being raised in a pastor's home where little to no consideration was given to your feelings. Expectations were relentless and I was caught in the middle of several traumatic events at the church when members would be angry with my father and the threat of being...

Hi. I'm wondering if there is anyone out there that grew up in a Pastor's home and experienced trauma? Not necessarily sexual trauma, but living in a fishbowl, feeling unloved trauma?

Hello friends, I try not to whine too much on this forum because I often come to it for comfort and healing and to not feel so freaking alone with everything we deal with. But this week has been the worst for me in a long time. I am two years into my journey of therapy to help my PTSD. There...

@Suze24. My T explained to me that I had several traumatic memories stored in the wrong place in my brain. He said that I have spent alot of years training myself not to think about these things. As a visual he said to imagine they were behind caution tape. EMDR can allow us to work through...

Saw my T today. He was so great with everything. We talked about it for a while. Gave me the choice to just talk about it or do emdr on it. I decided to go ahead with the emdr. It was intense. Only one other flashback/ memory came up during that time. I'm hoping that will be all but I...

Thanks guys. Always helps to hear that I'm not alone. I see my T tomorrow. I'm dreading it. I feel defeated, like this will never end.

I have been doing emdr now for two years. I have multiple traumas that begin in childhood. The most damaging ones occurred when I was a young adult and in a relationship with a sociopath. Those memories came up first in emdr and we painfully worked through those and actually remapped my brain...

I hate dreams like that. I would for sure tell your T. It is actually normal to dream about him. My T said 95% of his clients do, and he suspects the other 5% just aren't telling him. He feels like nightmares are a sign of processing. Even though he sympathizes with me, he sees them as a...

Just wanted to throw this out for a little fun dream interpretation. I often dream about my therapist. Never in a sexual way. Usually I'm dreaming that I can't get to him in some way. Alot of times, his wife (who I know) will show up in these dreams. Last night was a little different. In...

My therapist goes to my church. It's a large church, but I still see him every Sunday. I knew his wife long before I knew him. He will completely ignore me if that's what I want. A friend of mine saw him for over a year and one day his wife introduced my friend to his own therapist in the...