Do traumas have a cumulative effect?

[tiler]

and isn’t necessarily going to involve recounting the trauma from start to finish in a sequential timeline.

That's a relief

If there are two, pick one

What if it's kind of still ongoing? I'm currently obsessed with making a complaint about it, previous complaints were ignored, but now I have further, better evidence. But I'm also too scared to make the complaint incase of the backlash. And it's now or never as the person is leaving their job.

With EMDR, you don't have to talk about your traumas, is that definitely right?

 

[anthony]

What if it's kind of still ongoing?

The present tense distress, is what's important to be corrected. Not symptoms, traumatic distress. If you have a present situation that is highly traumatic and keeping you awake at night, keeping you from functioning day-to-day, then that is what you start with in therapy. When your present distress is based on past memories, then you work on that specific past memory/event.

Symptoms are the effect, not the cause, so work on the underlying cause, always.