EMDR is pretty wild. It can like instantly work it's so weird.
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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HOWEVER, being at peace with this kind of thing ("i'm not too much, the right people will come") involves a comfort with rejection which it took me many years of trauma therapies including EMDR and DBT to come to terms with. It isn't just a coat people can slip on easily, which is frustrating!
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I know the science isn't all the way there but people talk about EMDR like it's a genuine miracle and even if that's entirely placebo, placebo is powerful, man. Honestly I feel like I've been in rem sleep for 20 years, just stuck, can't move, having nightmares.
October 31, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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it's retraumatization at its core. it's not desensitization, not when samus is still very much in danger. fighting ridley over and over again is not exposure therapy, it's not EMDR, it's not cognitive processing therapy, it's not acceptance and commitment therapy. it's retraumatization.
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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World of egos. open.substack.com/pub/shainaec... #POET #WRITER #POETRY #LIFE #CHANGE #CHANCE #SCIN #POETRYLOVERS #WRITINGCOMMUNITY #POETRYCOMMUNITY #HUMANITY
#THERAPY #EMDR #WORLDOFEGOS
#THERAPY #EMDR #WORLDOFEGOS
World of egos.
For the life of me,
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October 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Last time I tried EMDR I wasn't fully aware of what all "counted" as trauma that I could focus on since most of my trauma is little things kinda sprinkled throughout my life but I think I have a much firmer grasp on my past now and what I can try to rearrange in my head
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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A sleep in my ANGER. open.substack.com/pub/shainaec... #POET #WRITER #POETRY #LIFE #CHANGE #CHANCE #SCIN #POETRYLOVERS #WRITINGCOMMUNITY #POETRYCOMMUNITY #HUMANITY
#THERAPY #EMDR #ASLEEPINMYANGER
#THERAPY #EMDR #ASLEEPINMYANGER
A sleep in my ANGER.
I woke up pissy.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Cuz nowadays the good, competent psychiatrists AND psychologists don't take insurance, cost $250-500 for the initial intake session & $125-300 per visit AND have a full practice with a waiting list? That's based on lived experience navigating ANY adjustments w/ medication & EMDR Trauma Therapy
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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EMDR is ordinary trauma therapy with distraction. Currently flavour of the therapy month but that’ll pass. Just get a good therapist cos meta studies suggest it’s no more effective than any other therapy
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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This made me cry. What you are doing is incredible. I went through 32 EMDR sessions a week apart and it would physically wipe me out for days. Its not mind work like therapy, its brain work. You are rewiring your brain. It is so worth it and life altering. YOU are amazing & YOU are a gift.
October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I didn’t even think they did EMDR virtually and not in person.
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Not my therapist suggesting EMDR 😂
It was only a matter of time before she suggested that if I'm being honest with myself.
It was only a matter of time before she suggested that if I'm being honest with myself.
October 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I separated in October of 2023. I have been seeking in-person therapy for EMDR through the VA ever since then. They do everything they can to obfuscate and prevent. I have an open VA OIG complaint, but there has been no action.
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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This morning's therapy: turns out I don't have depression, which is a huge relief. 👍 So we go straight to EMDR therapy for working on flashbacks issues. In the meantime, I'll keep practicing mindfulness and positive memories reprogramming until not needed anymore. 🙂 It's already helping a lot.
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Seconding all of this muchly. An old therapist of mine was employed by the city to do EMDR for any first responders right away post-trauma so they could head off PTSD at the pass.
October 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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EMDR, som det forskes på å bruke til tinnitusbehandling bl.a. i Nederland, og som foreslås som håpefullt av Tinnitus UK. ✨
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A trauma-focused approach for patients with tinnitus: the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing – a multicentre pilot trial
Background: While normal tinnitus is a short-term sensation of limited duration, in 10–15% of the general population it develops into a chronic condition. For 3–6% it seriously interferes with many as...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The advantage of getting something like EMDR and using emotive journaling techniques alongside a therapist familiar with PTSD earlier rather than later is there are good outcomes when it’s done in the weeks post event rather than the months or years post event. I am sorry you had such an experience
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I know EMDR is supposed to dig up a lot of repressed stuff… but ladies, ladies, one at a time!
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I cancelled therapy tomorrow. I’ve been doing EMDR on multiple incident CPTSD for two years straight with almost no breaks. I have no voice. I’m running a fever. I still feel guilty for calling off.
Maybe another therapy topic. 😅
Maybe another therapy topic. 😅
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Do you think Silent Hill lets you off easier if you can prove you learned dbt and did emdr
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Yes it's a tempting metaphor and yes some people are too damaged to change.
But a dramatic life event like rehab or the death of an abusive parent can be a catalyst for insight and malleability. Also trauma therapies like DBT and EMDR can reshape neural pathways.
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But a dramatic life event like rehab or the death of an abusive parent can be a catalyst for insight and malleability. Also trauma therapies like DBT and EMDR can reshape neural pathways.
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Why the Brain Is — and Isn't — a Computer: the Human OS
Thinking in apps
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October 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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sixth months with the emdr specialist and weve done not one session of emdr
October 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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emdr was life saving for me. i hope you can try it
October 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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