Anyone Tried "emdr"

[anthony]

Some of that is now exposure therapy... ie. putting your head into the pillow is about getting you to feel smothered, hence you expose yourself to x and result y is hopefully achieved, or z is achieved, relearnt, apply again, repeat.

 

[WonderingWhy]

Leona,

I was just reading your post on the thread "main trigger". I found it interesting. Actually as I was skimming through, I had to read a bit of it, before I realized it was NOT my post. I saw where you stated the length of time you had been on zoloft and that you have had good results! That is in fact the same in my case!

I just felt compelled to tell you. Just fyi.:rolleyes::hug:

 

[KAT]

I just had a emdr session Wednesday. It was very intense, when we had finish I felt worn out and my body ached a little. So I just rested a little the rest of the day. I'm interested in seeing if it will really work. My sit up statement was " I am worthless" picturing my 5 year old self disregarded on the floor after dad had finished with me. The end statement was " I am worthwhile".

 

[fairydust]

Hi Kat

Was just wondering about the process that your therapist used for the EMDR. My therapist tried it once but I was just too freaked out about talking about my abuse with someone sitting so close to me so we have put it on the back burner to try again some other time. I have been reading more recently thought that it is not the eye movements that are the important aspect of the treatment though, so was just wondering how your therapist approached it?

Fairydust

 

[KAT]

First we sit up a safe place if things became to intense. Than she sit next to me and we sit up the statements and visual. Than I followed her finger in front of my eyes while concentrating on my visual and statement. It is very intense but I just want to get better. Sometimes I just feel like I fight the PTSD all the time.

 

[KAT]

I'm having trouble sleeping. I wake up a lot during the nite. My counselor thinks it because a lot of the abuse went on at night. I don't take any thing to sleep but Tylenol.

 

[KAT]

It's ok I just had a bad night. It doesn't happen all the time.

 

[KAT]

Here I go again. I wake up feeling very anxious and have a massive hot flash. I'm going to take some Tylenol, read a while and try to go back to sleep. :) I'm already starting to feel calmer.

 

[KAT]

Nights are a trigger. I sleep with the door open and a night lite on. This just came to me.

 

[Nyx]

Night lights can be distracting and bad for sleep. Do you remember you dreams usually?

 

[KAT]

Sometimes. I can't sleep without a light. The dark is a trigger. I fall asleep o.k. I just wake up in the middle of the night usually anxious. Sometimes I stay awake but sometimes I go right back to sleep. My dad use to get me in the dark in the middle of the night.
I used to have a lot of nightmares of monsters chasing me. Dad doing things to me. I ended up in therapy because I woke twice choking. I thought I was going to die. That when I decided to get counseling. It has helped I don't have nightmare every night like I use to have. Big improvement. Thanks for the input. Maybe one day I will be able to turn out my nightlight.

 

[Nyx]

If you fall asleep ok maybe there's no need to give up your nightlight. I was told to eliminate any light source at night because they're distracting. But my problem was not being able to go to sleep.

Anyway, I'm glad you are making progress and you see it! Good luck and much strength to you in times to come!