Very well, think we've "settled down" in here and we thank you for respecting our request to delete our original post. First, to the originator of this "string"--thank you, thank you. I wish I would have thought of asking these questions to this forum. To Dr. Paulsen Inobe: I have read many, many professional articles on EMDR. I subscribe to the EMDR egroups forum and regularly read this forum. All these efforts are for my own knowledge, understanding, healing process. However, I must state that in all my readings, the testamonials I've heard/read, no where does it indicate, months, or longer, as you stated in your earlier reply. My understanding was that EMDR was a "brief" therapeutic process with great success. Almost everything that I've read, that I can recall, states, "brief" somewhere around 8 sessions? Well, my concern, thought, issue, is that I've, or should say we've, being doing EMDR for many, many months and still have not found neutralization, success, what have you. So my question is are there any professional articles, personal experiences, etc., where EMDR is highly successful but not so "brief". Are there traumatic experience where EMDR is successful but requires many, many months, perhaps years, to neutralize the memories, the experiences, the recalls? Or is EMDR only successful for specific traumatic experiences? I probably should share that my DXs is DID/PTSD with significant abandonment issues. My history includes child neglect, child sexual abuse, physical abuse, basically just long term childhood abuse of varying sorts. So perhaps EMDR is not so clear cut, per se, with individuals as myself? I thought long and hard about resending this post. I decided to do so because I do wonder if there are others as myself that seem to "not get" this EMDR thing. I also do so, for other DID/PTSD folks that may be reading. I appreciate the originator for his/her thoughts and comments, wish I would have thought to do so. So, I have decided these are valid question, deserving a reply, and am again, attempting to post it to this forum, of my own desire. Finally, I, absolutely in no way am trying to "negate" this process called EMDR. I believe, from what I've heard and read that it is very successful for many. I just wonder about how success it is for those as myself, where it has already been many, many months, and I'm still here searching for the peace, the freedom, the understanding and acceptance. I think it is still rather long, but hopefully not as redundant. Appreciate your time. Prefer unknown but appreciative.
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