EMDR
My therapist has suggested emdr for ptsd. She indicated that it could run from 8 to 16 sessions for me. Has anyone had success with this?
@gene2017
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@professionalPerspective60 I have since done some research online and it seems that there is a lot of empirical data supporting its value as an effective treatment. I've only had 2 sessions so far so it's too early to form an opinion yet. They were a bit emotional though as you focus on difficult, traumatic events.
@gene2017
It great to hear you have already started this trearment, and I hope the very best this therapy works for you, I can imagain how incredible exhauting the impact has on you. As it's highly sensitive and extremely emotional as they ask you to focus on the main triggers of the trauma, in the hope that this begins to desensitized parts of the trauma. I wish you all the best, good luck, your a remarkable strong person for taking charge of your life, you should be very proud of yourself ☺
Take good care of you.
I agree. There's a lot of evidence that EMDR works. However, as you've probably discovered from your research, therapists are not all convinced about it.
I know a therapist who uses it a lot, with very good results. I know another therapist who is trained in it but almost never uses it, and who also gets very good results.
So I'd say it seems pretty likely that EMDR will work, but if it happens not to work in your case there are other approaches that can be tried.
(I am aware, by the way, that we are discussing treatment for PTSD here, even though this is in a depression forum.)
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@RarelyCharlie Oh, I hadn't mentioned that I also suffer from depression. I'm not sure about the effects of emdr on depression but my therapist is treating me for depression, anxiety and ptsd. You're correct, some mental health professionals do not have good things to say about it but overall the consensus seems to be that it can be successful. So I'm going to keep an open mind and hope for the best.
Ah, I understand now 
Well, from what I've read, and from speaking to the therapists I know, EMDR is a pretty mainstream treatment for PTSD, but it's a pretty unusual treatment for anxiety and depression. So I suppose your therapist hopes to treat your PTSD first, and then see whether there's any anxiety and depression left after that. If things go well for you, the EMDR might clear everything up at the same time. But that's just my guess, really.
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