Traumatic Incident Reduction

[jc3]

I met with my individual therapist on Monday this week who introduced me to a gentleman who will facilitate traumatic incident reduction. From the brochure, to the discussion we had about it, I feel slightly confident that it could help me. Have any of you heard of or have went through this treatment yourself? I'm excited to try something new although I'm a tad doubtful that it could reduce or even eliminate my flashbacks and triggers altogether.

 

[ladee]

Haven't heard of it, but am really looking forward to hearing your experience with it.

 

[jc3]

Haven't heard of it, but am really looking forward to hearing your experience with it.

Okay. I will certainly give updates. I was supposed to receive a phone call this week from the man who will conduct the treatment but he never called. I began to worry this morning that perhaps there was a problem with my insurance coverage although they already told me that it's not a problem. When him, my therapist and I were talking I felt very comforted and immersed in the faith that these men really want to help me and CAN help me. The chances of success with this treatment seem promising given the explanation that I received.

 

[joeylittle]

I've read a little about it - it sounds like a kind of sped-up classic exposure therapy, where you tell the story until the story doesn't bother you anymore. There's data supporting the effectiveness of that approach.

It seems to work in a structure that is like EMDR, without the eye movement. There have been studies suggesting that the eye movement is irrelevant to EMDR, and otherwise, EMDR is another data-supported approach, so something in the same vein is at least, in the same vein.

It also seems geared towards people with traumatic events that they can isolate - so, a point on your own timeline where a thing occurred, as opposed to a large span of time when it was occurring.

I hope you come back and share your experience of it.

 

[jc3]

I've read a little about it - it sounds like a kind of sped-up classic exposure therapy, where you te...

I will certainly give updates about it, even if it doesn't help. The treatment only needs to take place for 1-3 sessions if there is just once incident that needs treated, but in my case I have multiple triggers so I was told it could take a considerable amount of more time. What I want to specifically address are my fears of abandonment, of confrontation, asking questions and, very importantly, making mistakes. I have broken down so many times over the years whenever I messed something up, so bad to the point where I isolated myself and began to self destruct. My feelings during each of those moments were identical to the fear and panic I experienced whenever my father or my little gridders coach responded to me when I "screwed up". It has prevented me from holding employment and authentic expression.

 

[joeylittle]

What I want to specifically address are my fears of abandonment, of confrontation, asking questions and, very importantly, making mistakes.

Do you know the 'root' cause of these things, the episode(s) where these fears began? From what I've read about TIR, it will be most effective if you know where in your personal timeline these things initiated.

ETA: of course, it's the therapists job to figure these out, too.

 

[tir]

Do you know the 'root' cause of these things, the episode(s) where these fears began? From what I've...

Yes, I can recall most of the causes of these fears and the time they took place.