EMDR Wins.

[bzy32]

I have been having a rough week after an EMDR session and I thought maybe just sharing and hearing other peoples accomplishments may help.

Since Starting EMDR:

I've overcome comfort eating/binge eating and my addiction to marijuana and now live a healthy active lifestyle without struggling to maintain it.
I got my first full-time job and even started my own side business (hoping to make it full time) and was able to financially support my family on my own.
I no longer suffer extreme social anxiety and can even be assertive in public when people violate my boundaries. I even went to a huge downtown event with thousands of people and didn't have any negative feelings. I actually enjoyed myself and wanted more social interaction.
I cut off contact with all my abusers and people who cause me significant stress--I no longer fear being alone and rejection.
I overcame health anxiety.
I have greatly reduced my symptoms when I'm under extreme stress. I can now handle my symptoms when they come in waves and not feel like the world is ending.
During my annual eval with my therapist I did not meet the criteria for PTSD. Though this has changed since, but I'm still calling it a win.

My only goal at this point is to avoid dissociation/depersonalization/derealization symptoms when I'm triggered (or at least bring myself back to reality quickly).

Anyone else feel optimistic or have some wins of their own?

 

[littleoc]

This is a great post! I’m really, really glad you are posting. It sounds like you’ve you a lot of progress of your own.

I guess I could just say that since starting EMDR, I’ve been able to always eat (used to have a thing where I just wouldn’t eat for long periods of time), I have not ended up trapped in a house or room for days or weeks (extreme isolation?), and etc. Yay! :)

 

[ILoveLife]

Great progress! :)

My big win is not due to EMDR, but I no longer qualify as well. Still get slightly anxiety triggered, but not overwhelmingly disabled by it anymore.

 

[shimmerz]

Yeah, a bunch of positive stuff happening with me right now too. For a long time it felt like I was just working with my tools creating my tools – lots of things I didn’t really seem to be helping at the time. But the thing is when things started turning around those tools were really really handy to have and I’m glad I put the time in the effort into them. Congratulations on this huge coup. Well done. Enjoy

 

[flynav]

I am going to try EMDR this week. I am glad to hear that it has helped some of you

 

[Skywatcher]

I do emdr and have recently realized that my original trigger person doesn’t bother me anymore! Unfortunately, I am currently dealing with emdr avoidance because everything keeps pulling me back to the same bad place. So I guess there is balance.

 

[flynav]

Thank you. I suppose there is that