Anger After EFT Therapy

[kitkat]

Okay. Recently my therapist had me try something called EFT. I had to talk about some things I'd rather not have talked about, and ever since, I'm so full of anger, more than usual. So much that I feel it in my veins. I feel like my brain is going to pop out of my head. I didnt think about that time until she made me talk about it. If I keep going back to my sessions, I feel like the more I have to talk about other things will only make my anger worse. I know it's supposed to help but it's only making it worse.

 

[morgan]

This could just be temporary. Sometimes you have to feel the rough stuff before you can feel better. I know that EMDR and exposure therapy are like that. I have never had EFT so I don't know if it works the same or not. It seems like it would though.

Just my two cents, Morgan

 

[the racha]

What is EFT therapy?

 

[Deleted member 541]

A lot of different types of therapies can and will make you feel worse after, if it doesn't then it probably isn't working very well. You have to get sicker, before you can get better.......


EFT....Is Emotional Freedom Technique Therapy

 

[usmc9911]

KitKat,

I am unfamiliar with EFT treatment but I too have noticed an increase of anger since I started talking openly about my stressor. It seems like now It is all I think about since I started treatment, but I think things get worse before they get better, Just hang in there.

Ron

 

[cragger65]

The way I understood it, EFT was to help release emotional energy that is blocked up inside you. I would suggest working with existing emotions for a while FIRST before attempting to use it to tackle the big stuff. Maybe that's just me. I look at it as a good idea to learn to ride the bike first, before attempting any great leaps. Safety first maybe is what I'm thinking?

 

[2quilt]

I think you should write about your anger since you have so much of it and it's bothering your life so much. Release it all onto a page or a blog or on this website. Get it out.

 

[anthony]

I had to talk about some things I'd rather not have talked about

Nothing to do with the type of therapy name, more the above. You released secrets, you released the trauma within you.... part of it anyway. This is the entire point and something you must do if you want to heal from trauma.

 

[Marlene]

I'm not going through EFT, but I do know when I've just recently talked about a trauma to my therapist I too, became filled with anger. Especially when thinking about the session. I would rather have not talked about it. Hell, I'd rather have left it buried so I never had to deal with it.

But, as stated a couple of places above, releasing traumas does make you worse for a while before you get better. That's the nature of this particular PTSD beast. When you talk about your traumas you get to experience the emotions that were supressed during the trauma(s). Not fun, not easy. These emotions have been put away for a while (or a really long time) and once they are expressed and dealt with they can be put back into their rightful place as a bad memory instead of things that haunt us and cause so much pain in our lives.

Lisa