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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Freida" data-source="post: 1729276" data-attributes="member: 44143">Hopefully the VA in my area will start this sometime this summer - and I"m planning on being in line.  My T has mixed opinions - she wants to let others go first and see how it works for them before I jump in because I have a history of med reactions but honestly?  The more I've read on it the more I am willing to risk it.  Our biggest hope is that it will help me separate my traumas so they don't constantly criss cross into one another.  If  could work on just one at a time I think it would be amazingly helpful.  Plus it may be able to get me out of dispatch mode so I'll stop freaking dissociating every time we get close to something tough. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👿" title="Angry face with horns    :imp:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f47f.png" data-shortname=":imp:" /> emdr is a beotch, but it is amazingly effective.  Walk in with memories that are just destroying you and after a few sessions (for most single traumas) you walk out thinking....huh.  that was a really sad event to go thru but it no long bothers me.Complex trauma is a bit tricky but it's still effective.  Just more complicated to get thru.</blockquote>