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Re: EMDR links?

Posted by antigua3 on July 26, 2007, at 11:37:03

In reply to Re: EMDR links?, posted by B2chica on July 26, 2007, at 10:00:44

Remember, as they say, your mileage may vary and others will have different experiences. This is just mine
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> so is it like a type of hypnosis?? what do you mean things 'come up'...i don't like surprises... i guess i thought it was just an easier way to talk about issues that you 'plan' to talk about anyway???

No it isn't like hypnosis at all (I've tried that too). You are totally focused and aware. both my Ts used a light-type machine where thelights blinked from one end horizontally to the other. I was to focus on the path of the light, back and forth, and the Ts would adjust the speed of the light, depending on how I was doing(sometimes I'd tell them it was too slow). So your eyes go back and forth and you concentrate on a specific memory.
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> does it provoke flashbacks? new memories?
It did for me and they were not pleasant. Sometimes the memories would come up later in the day, or the next day.
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> do you have to close your eyes? or are the open?
Always open, because you have to follow the light (some Ts use their hands). It's following from your peripheral vision all the way on your left to all the way on your right and back again.
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> are the sessions close together? like a couple a week? once/week????
I went once a week.
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> how long do you "do" emdr? i guess i'm wondering if it is just a different way to do therapy or in addition to thearpy. you kinda mentioned doing both? i think?

I did it in addition to my talk therapy. I was stuck and wanted to release memories, but it didn't always work that way.
Sometimes it was just great. The idea was to work through the memory with the EMDR and feel like you've passed through it when you're finished. I felt enormous relief sometimes.

An important thing for me was that the T had me establish a very safe place in my mind (or real life) that I could go to when the feelings became too intense. It was like a lot of pushing and pulling, but the T always put me back in the safe spot before we finished, and we often locked up what was too much for me in a box that I would agree not to open until I saw my T.

The most important thing I learned was that I had more than one abuser. Not exactly my intentions going in.

But I guess I gave up on it. I became ambivalent about it, and actually was probably getting close to some really scary things when I bailed. I didn't trust my EMDR T enough, even though she was actually the first T I ever saw years ago and referred me to my present T. (It was one of those insurance things where she could only see me six times). I just didn't want to connect to her, it was too difficult w/my other T.

So if your T does it, that's the best.

Good luck,
antigua


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