My First EMDR Experience

As many of you know, last year I started EMDR therapy to treat my PTSD. When my therapist introduced me to EMDR, I was very skeptical. Despite years of therapy and trying everything, I had never heard of it. Surely if something worked on complex PTSD the way that EMDR supposedly did, everyone would know about it, right?

Well, not necessarily.

EMDR transformed my life. It is the most effective form of therapy I have ever tried. And that’s coming from someone who’s tried just about everything: talk therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness, decluttering, float therapy, and various medications, to name a few.

Which is why I wanted to do a post on it.

EMDR completely changed the game for me and my PTSD. It helped me regain control of my life in a way that I never knew I needed to. I found it interesting that no one in my close circle had ever heard of the therapy before, and from writing about it on the Bare, I realized that not many people have heard of it.

I think it’s important to know about alternative therapies available because we don’t know what we don’t know. And we can’t try…