Skeptic here, please change my mind. What does this mean for me?
I’ve hit a wall with therapy. My flashbacks are more frequent. It’s debilitating. I can’t physically push my thoughts out of my mouth anymore if that makes any sense. My therapist wants me to try EDMR. I do have a lot of trust in her.
My thoughts: It feels like a cheat code, where you achieve something but you don’t do the work. Maybe that’s fucked up to say but it really feels that way. To me, doing the work means talking about my trauma, the events, the intricacies of the abuse, etc. It makes me feel like by bypassing that, it was all just in the wrong part of my brain and my trauma was never a big deal and I’m just a weak human being. To be clear I know that it won’t magically fix anything.
Has anyone felt this way? I’m sold on its benefits, I’m struggling with the decision to move forward with it - does it reflect on me, that I’m too weak or incapable to do the work the hard way?
Please be direct as possible…but kind :) I’m pretty terrified.