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lifechanging psychotherapy technique that reprocesses old memories and changes your beliefs around them simply by making your eyes move back and forth
i’ve been in therapy since I was 12 and nothing has helped me like EMDR. it has truly changed the way I perceive myself, the world, my life. I stay preaching about it
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I have been hard at work in therapy for the past 8 + years, working through old wounds and traumas. I did a combo of CBT and art therapy for 5 years with a therapist named Rebecca. She changed my life. I moved away and needed to find a new therapist (oh man it was an interesting journey trying different therapists out, this one guy was an old Cali Jungian who made me feel crazy and shit on mentally ill people every session I had with him and sent me a lengthy angry text message when I ended things with him.) Now, I am trying EMDR with a different therapist named Rebecca - it’s working out great. We have been doing a lot of visualizations while I hold these two buzzers in my hands. I pictured myself putting this friend of mine who fuckboy’d me into a blue velvet ottoman cartoon style. With a slide whistle sound effect and everything. I reimagined this creepy guy experience. This dude was yapping at me in a creepy way, with EMDR my brain shrunk him down into a cartoon mouse and I couldn’t understand a word he was saying. I cried laughing crom some of these EMDR experiences.
Apr 5, 2024
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not the first and probably not the last time i will recommend this on here but seriously this rewired my entire brain im so grateful
Feb 7, 2024
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I knew other people felt this way (now, after finding out why I did) but I've never seen it described so accurately! I'm not saying we are 100% going through the same thing, but I'd give it a 90% chance here based on how much this describes me.
for me, it turned out that I had c-ptsd from chronic overstimulation and emotional/medical neglect as a kid - just enough to go under everyone's radar. I am autistic, but my parents were in denial, nobody really "knew" or confirmed it because I was forced and eventually became able to "act normal" despite still being a big bullying target and a little weirdo in private. but beyond the social aspects, these symptoms you've described and what I've felt turned out to be a reaction to something I've forgotten long ago. I was physically looking fine, emotionally seeming okay on the outside (because I shut down outwardly rather than melt down), but I went through repetitive unaccomidated experiences that hurt me in the long run. but I didn't have a big traumatic event I could point to. the physical medical neglect I experienced later was unrelated and more nuanced. and I was surprised when I was working with my therapist and my biggest issues were not single events - but tiny little things that built up over time, every day.
the only thing that's helped me actually stop them has been EMDR - but it is a strooong trauma therapy. it's not scary - people without c-ptsd do pretty hardcore processing routinely that's just like it during REM sleep, it's part of dreaming - but I really could only do three sessions before I needed to stop and process how I feel about my life now. but I can walk into school's now without any of the same physical or emotional issues I was having! but before it always felt both nostalgic and bad, like at best exposing myself in a controlled setting.
I'm not trying to say you're autistic or have c-ptsd, but that's what it ended up being for me. C-ptsd gives you triggers that make you feel like you have the trauma event of PTSD, but unspeakably so. the best comparison I can make is PTSD is a broken leg you can put in a cast and mostly heal up, while C-PTSD is getting a hammer to your leg every day until it eventually cracks, but you don't even notice it anymore. all you know is that hammers make you feel sick and you're protective of your leg now. triggers feel more abstract and unable to pinpoint. I didn't realize why my triggers were so intense before memories resurfaced about them after EMDR.
so if it's intense, I wouldn't nessecarily say you NEED EMDR now, but talking with a trauma therapist isn't such a bad idea. I do believe c-ptsd is underdiagnosed, but also understudied and poorly understood. so I think it's worth asking yourself how intense it is, and a lot of people don't know they deal with it. but you're not alone! I deal with it too
Apr 6, 2025
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Linking a solid podcast ep that talks about sewing from a historical and philosophical context too hehe everyone should know how to sew
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