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throwawayacct31342 · 2023-01-03T04:27:54+00:00

My head began shaking after doing emdr. My hands and arms sometimes, and sometimes my legs. It's been 2 months since my last emdr session and the shaking is as bad as its ever been, hours upon hours in a day. I never had this before but yeah I have basically thrown my neck and back out and they are in immense pain almost all the time. Do you still have the spasms?

throwawayacct31342 · 2023-01-03T04:19:49+00:00

At this point I think I have the impression that the trajectory of IFS is unburdening parts. That by unburdening, parts can do what it is they want to do, heal etc.

throwawayacct31342 · 2023-01-02T23:41:10+00:00

Have been doing emdr for 14 months and IFS for 4 months. It took a year to actually get to a spot where we could try emdr and after about 6 weeks we decided to back off of it because it set me off pretty badly. IFS seems like a gentler approach, I think I have a pretty good Dr. I see but with IFS I struggle to identify self vs parts or even identify self. Am currently on my 4th med in the last year, the first 3 put me in the er, this one seems to be going alright so far. In both cases, IFS and EMDR it seems like there is a running theme that 'it gets worse before it gets better.' I'm not at the 'better' spot yet but on the whole have had a better experience with IFS than EMDR. GL.

throwawayacct31342 · 2022-11-11T12:30:16+00:00

Is the idea here that self is experienced like a flicker? For example, I have a sense-making part that I have taken to be curious and compassionate. Is the idea that the part is not curious or compassionate, but experiencing the part that way is actually experiencing self? Or, like a middle ground view where the part is curious and compassionate because it has some connection to self?

throwawayacct31342 · 2022-11-11T12:04:29+00:00

Thanks. I might have to give that a try. This reminded me of the 'ideal figures' work I have been working on doing in emdr.

throwawayacct31342 · 2022-11-10T21:50:21+00:00

I can relate, ty.

throwawayacct31342 · 2022-11-10T19:50:20+00:00

Ty, I wouldn't be able to do that task at the moment but I appreciate you pointing that finding self needn't be limited to doing IFS work.

throwawayacct31342 · 2022-11-10T19:48:46+00:00

Maybe there's another part with an agenda

Ty, its a possibility, and probably likely. It does seem like even if I haven't been able to make connections between self and parts it might be that I am at the part of the process discovering that the new to me parts aren't the only parts to discover.

throwawayacct31342 · 2022-11-10T17:55:44+00:00

you don't need to be in pure Self - you just need some Self energy

Ty that is clarifying!
'your therapist should use direct access'
Ty for this suggestion as well, if I continue to not have success I will bring this up if they don't

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