This is some hypnotizing sh1t
I was severely abused as a child, and I have difficulty going through daily life because everything reminds me of what happened... it was 7 years ago that it stopped... but
I am in a therapy that puts me in dream sleep while awake... while in this state a woman names off objects, people, places, things I normally avoid, I then have a conscious dream of something that happened that I forgot. So we can try to erase it from my memory.
with this, I remembered being in the hospital a day after I was BORN!!! and things when I was three months old, things I never knew happened, but have been confirmed as happening.
but sometimes the abuse I tried so hard to forget comes up, and once it's up... it wont leave... I'ts like having your brain trapped in a horror movie... you react in body but you are in no real danger at the time.
I hate myself still though, each 'image' I see, the more hopeless and unwanted I feel. Does anyone else do emdr? And does it actually work for you?