Deep Brain Reorientation

[Freddyt]

Anyone else doing or has done this therapy?
I just had my first session a month or so ago, very different therapy. We talked about it the last session (on trauma day so did no therapy.)
The experience was weird, I guess everyone experiences it differently to some degree but I was twitching and seeing colors.

In the end, after the first month, it did an odd thing. When I started therapy I thought events happened over a couple week in the hospital when it was a couple months. This has opened that timeline again, its not like a dog pile of events, they stretched out again, there's space between.

Not like its magic but things we have beat and beat on in therapy (Eyes bandaged and falling off the bed) for years now are not the same suddenly. Guess I will come back to this post and keep it going as we continue this therapy.

 

[KA60]

I don't understand what this therapy is. Why are you twitching and seeing colors? I take a very low dose of lamotrigine for seizure prophylaxis. I have been seizure free 12 years. If I had twitching or was seeing colors I would make an appointment with my neurologist. Are you sure you are ok?

 

[Movingforward10]

Is this different to brain spotting?

 

[Freddyt]

Is this different to brain spotting?

No idea. I don't study up on therapies. What I do know is it is similar to somatic in same ways and it skips all the mucking around of chipping away at things bit by bit with emdr. and deals with trauma like somatic by releasing what is held in the deep brain. T says we don't need to work on stuff piece by piece, just do this.

I don't understand what this therapy is. Why are you twitching and seeing colors?

Twitching is a release of trapped trauma energy.

Seeing colors was different but - I experience music as colors. Which may have to do with my having had trauma from music teachers, or other associated events.

 

[KA60]

OK. Thank you. Just concerned you are okay. From neuroscience standpoint.

 

[Freddyt]

Another session yesterday. Whats interesting is there seems to be no therapy hangover.

Dealing with some pretty ugly stuff and not having to do more than define what it was is helpful in that you don't have to go over those thoughts and through what happened, doing EMDR on all the sticky points, meaning walking through the event and suffering the disturbance of that.

I have no idea if people experience it the same way or differently because my T was asking what I experienced. What I experienced was like riding through a tunnel with blue lights, backwards. There were "sticky" moments of red light that would change to blue.

Which is interesting because I experience music as color too.

 

[Freddyt]

Again after session two, there is no real therapy hangover like with emdr.

Funny thing is I am really looking forward to my next session. This not dealing with memories makes things WAY, WAY better after sessions.

 

[Teasel]

Sounds ever so good @Freddyt

 

[shimmerz]

Are your eyes directed or drawn to move during this therap?

 

[Freddyt]

Are your eyes directed or drawn to move during this therap?

Neither. Eyes are closed for the most part. There is nothing the same between EMDR and DBR.

T directs the session and reads from a script, mostly about relaxing, and I sit and listen and be as I am, whatever that is.

Both sessions that has been twitching, feet and hands. Nothing I do is directed in any way. All I do is focus on what T is saying.

I can't say more than that events we have been beating and banging on for what, 5 years, sort of melted away as roadblocks. I haven't had as much time to look objectively at what has changed since the last session this time as dealing with mom's passing has been the foremost thing the last couple weeks.

....and that would have sent me into a tailspin for a while, but it hasn't.