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Originally Posted by Hydrotherapy
If EMDR doesn’t work or you are too disregulated to do it, ask your therapist if they do ART. Similar but different.
I’ve done EMDR, ART, CBT, IFS. I also have done psychedelics on my own for some microdosing and it is helpful if you have a positive plan in place for that day.
I won’t get into specifics of my mental health but in the past 3 years I waffle between -1 and a 4/5.
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ART sounds very promising.
For the past 2 years I’ve been dealing with agoraphobia. Being able to work from home and get everything delivered definitely enables it.
It started with me just not feeling “safe” around my yard (due to things that actually happened here and at previous residences, so it’s not some irrational paranoid delusion) but now it’s really off the wall. I’ve read van der Kolk’s book; I guess my mind and body just got to a tipping point and is at the “if one more thing happens I’m going to freak out” point. Maybe it’s a form of self-protection.
Well, there’s a lot more going on with that but it’s not healthy to keep relying on friends to drag me out and of the house like some invalid.
I’ve never allowed myself to feel angry; I think IFS would help with that because always being subservient to my Trump-like mother (and repeating that in my female friendships) has destroyed me.