joeylittle
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Can you share more about this? I'm wondering what precipitated your attempt.Anyway, I finally got a new therapist after trying to take my own life (and almost succeeding!) not long ago
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Can you share more about this? I'm wondering what precipitated your attempt.Anyway, I finally got a new therapist after trying to take my own life (and almost succeeding!) not long ago
my therapist told me unequivocally that emdr would probably not be effective for me. it's useful for single event oriented trauma. it's not as clear cut for complex trauma sadly. eft is pseudoscientific nonsense. dbt is a very effective tool but it is f*cking hard to implement. it can feel very critical. i would encourage you to keep focusing on cognitive processing and trauma therapy. they work but it takes time. often years.I don’t know why everyone is trying to push EMDR on to me? Everywhere I go, it seems the same.
my therapist told me unequivocally that emdr would probably not be effective for me. it's useful for single event oriented trauma. it's not as clear cut for complex trauma
Thanks but I’m not going to keep going back to CBT... it’s the one I have done the most, for the longest amount of time (literal YEARS) and as I have said before, it is re-traumatizing me so bad that I keep ending up in hospital after trying to kill myself.my therapist told me unequivocally that emdr would probably not be effective for me. it's useful for single event oriented trauma. it's not as clear cut for complex trauma sadly. eft is pseudoscientific nonsense. dbt is a very effective tool but it is f*cking hard to implement. it can feel very critical. i would encourage you to keep focusing on cognitive processing and trauma therapy. they work but it takes time. often years.
This is because a lot of the culture is steered by idiots and cowards that prefer to be on what appears to be the "winning" side. Generally either these people know nothing, either themselves are toxic. Rape culture is real and it’s a societal plague. My opinion might not count more than anybody, but I’m telling you:Society would blame me. A defence lawyer would blame me. There must be a reason WHY that’s the case, logically speaking. I mean I wasn’t strong enough to fight all three of them off me, so I froze. I know this. I know this is the case; anyone would argue that this is true.
Understandable.Sorry but I don’t feel comfortable sharing more about my last suicide attempt.
It was pretty recent ish... it’s still raw and I’m still trying to heal from that alone, let alone everything else.
This is why I asked about what you (@justasimplecat ) wanted from therapy. Cos I kinda agree with Joey. If you disclose big T trauma, Ts are gonna zone in on that, if you really don't wanna discuss it right now, then yeah, I second not disclosing.And I will get some flack for saying this on this board, but my advice is: if you want to be in therapy but you don't want to deal with the trauma, then don't disclose it.
So very sorryI have tried EMDR twice and it did nothing for me.
Please see my reply above