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Originally Posted by MarieMarie
That's horrible 
Has any of you had experience with that EMDR therapy thing? I've heard interesting stories about that |
I haven't personally, but in my outpatient program people were commonly being given referrals. It's apparently very effective for PTSD and trauma in general. What happens with trauma is that it's such a shock to your brain that it doesn't know what to do with the information, and where your brain would typically take that memory and send it to either short or long term storage, it instead keeps it in this limbo nowhere place, so the memories are just constantly in the back of your mind and it makes you feel like it just happened and fully triggers an adrenal stress response in your body. The EMDR helps to kind of force the trauma into the long term I'm-not-in-immediate-danger memory storage facility it belongs.