quit therapy because i hated it. does mediation really work or will eye movement and reprocessing

Mental health
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im going to try eye movement and reprocessing to ged ride of bad trauma and awful things that happened to me. will that work better than any other methods.

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Hi Nicoleta - sorry to hear you didn't get along with the therapy.

EMDR (the eye movement thing) is also a type of therapy, but it is one that attempts (at least in part) to exercise a certain part of the brain called the "Amygdala".  This part of the brain is well developed at birth and is responsible for many things, including the fight/flight reflex.  It also records and holds emotional memories and this can be super-powerful as it take some years before other parts of the brain 'come online' that help us sequence and contextualise experiences - that help the Amygdala to dampen down overwhelming experiences.   In other words, if your trauma was something starting in earliest childhood, EMDR may help and act as a kind of physio-for-the-brain and, as you say, help with becoming aware of certain things, and integrating them more fully.  It is still therapy though, not something that is just done to you... I imagine the practitioner will want to (and should) talk with you, as this will be part of things.

Wish you the best - I've written a bit about this if it helps (though I don't offer EMDR myself):  goto the Blog section and see post "It's not Brain Surgery...is it?"

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Hi Nicoleta, I've heard of the eye movement thing to help with PTSD so you can only give it a go.

Will it work better than any other method, I don't know you can only try it and see. It may take a few goes and patience before it works on the other hand could work straight away.

Good luck and tell us how you get on.

Neil 

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Different things work for different ppl give it a go it can't do any harm. Good luck and let us know if it starts to work. X