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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Freddyt" data-source="post: 1794948" data-attributes="member: 50671">Is it possible to get better at EMDR over time?  I don't understand why but it seems that if, like my last session we start working on stuff fairly early in my appointment I start getting "hangover" sooner.  This last session it was actually starting halfway through therapy and I don't know how much I got out of the last half of my appointment.There was one other thing that went with this.  My T gave me an exercise around Christmas to reset my working memory.  I don't use it much as it induces a feeling like an electric shock 220v not 110v, (110/60hz tickles, 220 hurts ).  I got that same feeling in my last therapy session on the first thing we worked on.It wasn't a banner day up to the point I got to therapy either.  I was having time distortion issues, working memory problems, to the point I got to therapy 40 minutes early and didn't realize it until I went to plug the parking meter.  So, can you get "better" at EMDR over time? Is it better focus? Or is it that my guard is down more in therapy as we go along?  Or was it just that I hit the "perfect conditions" for that session?</blockquote>