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I´ve done this twice, last week and today and I feel so much lighter and relaxed. I´ve been dealing with a lot of anxiety and also grief. Thanks for posting this, it truly did wonders for my mental health.
I can handle it part is important because I start to dissociate and almost fall asleep when the “I can’t believe this happened to me” part comes up. Still almost can’t stay awake so will have to do this more when I can
Also though I’ve always been able to handle the memory… Can people not handle their memories? Yeah, it’s fucked up and it sucked and I hated it when it happened but when I think back on it, I can “handle it “what does you can handle it now even fucking mean? If you’re even able to think of it at all and remember it doesn’t that mean that you can handle it? This shit never makes sense to me. I don’t understand how the fuck this kind of dumb shit helps people it doesn’t help me.
I hated this after the third time of asking me to name the ball that’s going way too fast. It made me feel like a crazy person and I was not able to do it. I couldn’t name the colors fast enough because it kept changing and all I could focus on was how freaking stupid this was and how annoying it was to ask me to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again when it’s extremely chaotic and way too fast this didn’t do anything I can’t even complete it because it makes me feel schizo and more anxious, anxious.
I hated this after the third time of asking me to name the ball that’s going way too fast. It made me feel like a crazy person and I was not able to do it. I couldn’t name the colors fast enough because it kept changing and all I could focus on was how freaking stupid this was and how annoying it was to ask me to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again when it’s extremely chaotic and way too fast this didn’t do anything I can’t even complete it because it makes me feel schizo and more anxious, anxious.
A question… This being the most disturbing memory, can you also try this approach with other memories from your past that are probably as damaging? What do you do with memories stored in your psyche, long before you had a memory (ex early childhood, etc) Forever grateful!
What if most of your life has been trauma I.E. trauma from childhood causing social anxiety and almost being killed and emotionally abused by someone you were seeing when you grew up making it worse? I have so many traumatic experiences just from having anxiety to begin with lol
Yeah, that's the trick isn't it. From my understanding, early trauma results in a (young) person learning responses to such bad stimuli that may be protective, but aren't healthy. In my case, I've had social deficits and believe that they are (at least in part) caused by early experiences that resulted in learning unfortunate protective responses. They're unfortunate as they may push others away. And, as you suggest, as one grows, one sees that those responses aren't great ones and get in the way of relationships... thus causing more anxiety. In my case, I found it valuable to FINALLY (after 40 years of many many txpist session) realize that some early trauma resulted in me learning to process inter-relationships in protective, yet poor ways. I never understood why things that happened many decades ago could still have a grip on me. But by thinking that the young brain learns (unfortunately) unsophisticated ways of responding to social situations, as an adult one is stuck with those poor responses. A young kid often responds to tough situations by acting out -- a tantrum or crying -- because at a young age more sophisticated (better) ways of responding just haven't been learned yet. If that happened to us and in a repeated way, then we get stuck with child-like responses that just don't go over very well in the adult world. So we have to relearn better responses. That is not easy; we are creatures of habit and well-established responses -- even if hurtful or antisocial -- can hang on. And we can be in total denial that we do such things. So an important thing, I think, is to be very patient with oneself. Try to apply a caring attitude to onself when trying to learn better interaction skills. That is not easy and we'll continue to screw up many times. But awareness of the "wrong programming" of our brains is a key thing and so is a desire to do better, to find love and affection. Those impulses can help us a lot toward learning better -- less defensive -- responses. We tend to apply the same bad responses to ourselves and we can treat ourselves poorly. But, when we realize that we want to feel better and be better, the healing and change can happen. The very care that we learn to apply ourselves will then be applied in our relationships. That is why it's said that, unless we care (or love) ourselves, we can't care (or love) others. That's the really good news.... by starting to treat oneself with kindness, patience, understanding, we are learning those loving skills that will be applied to those around us.
I've used this video about 3 or 4 times now over the past few months to help me after an event (such as an argument) and it really works for me to help reflect on both my side and also on the other persons to being able to handle and let it go. Works really well, thanks 👍🏻
I’m confused, maybe this isn’t meant for me, but I’ve been actively seeking EMDR therapy for years without being able to find any options. I finally decided to see if there were any simple “do it yourself” options to just give it a try on a less serious stressful moment. I recounted my whole memory, finding it was more upsetting than I had originally remembered since I was actually recounting it in full. Once it got to the colored ball movements I was completely lost. The interruptions were asking what I saw now or what my interpretation of things were, but I had no idea because my focus was on naming the colors. That’s the entirety of what I was thinking about at that point and I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to be thinking. Maybe I’m too Autistic and my thinking is too “black and white” to be able to focus on more than one thing for this, I wish I could experience what all the positive comments are describing :/
those comments may be from people who dont have actually have ptsd. ptsd or cptsd feels life endangering levels of bad. actually going delving into trauma is not a sensible thing without safety nets around you which I think is why self help is a bit of a dodgy approach. I just did this and found my thinking about it has been resurfaced a lot. it's not actually been helpful
that happened to me too but i just continued with the video and eventually got to actually processing the memory and image. i think, like in meditation, you just let your thoughts go wherever without judgement
I found the whole thing confusing and difficult lol. But yeah. I could only imagine feelings, not images. Did you get anything out of it? I just feel frustrated
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Damn this was interesting.. my current 10 years old new adulthood social traumas all come up ofcourse from childhood and how I need to be perfect and Everyone else i love has to as well. I dug really deep that the original recent memory didnt even matter i just felt sad and resistant to acceptance that perfectinism is illusion and i just have to accept my and others actions as they are and mostly forgive myself. This was great to move the feeling away and start thinking about the problem objectivly ! Thank you so much 🙌
I found this at 2 am and am too scared to use it this late. I did download and "Like" and "Subscribe." Commenting so I can be brought back here easily in the future and remember to share with others.
I think some past trauma is causing my insomnia but I can't pinpoint one certain thing, when I did this session I visualized my brothers accident/suicide attempt that made me scared to sleep alone, then I visualized my sister leaving home when we shared a room and I was scared to sleep alone. I LOVE sleeping alone now but there has got to be something that is causing my insomnia. I wonder if you have tips on how I discover it? I do feel better after this session and almost feel asleep when looking at the ball.
this makes me go even more insane though, naming the colors, it makes my teeth itch and feel like I need to stop looking at the ball. How do you do this?
i don't get it? while i'm naming the colors out loud I can't think of the painful image because they change color quick so im just trying to keep up naming them. Am i doing it right?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's confused and frustrated. I also ended it wondering if I did it right. I never could create a clear image in my mind, just feelings. I can't afford a therapist but might need the guidance
I also got frustrated by the color-naming task, but also saw (at least in my case) that the frustration led to higher-than-reasonable anxiety. So, I think that in my case, that anxiety was pointing to an issue that I'm struggling with. However, I wonder if the task might be a tad too difficult; I had many flubs. One possible fix would be to use the playback speed control in the settings menu (click on the "gear" icon) to play it back at a slower speed. Of course, I don't know if doing so messes up the efficacy of the task; just thought I'd throw that out there.
Did anyone else experience a bunch of earlier traumatic experiences coming up each time? For me, my mind didn't focus on the event I came to heal from, but throughout the session I was unraveling earlier memories of similar painful experiences. Overall, very helpful, thank you. I will be coming back.
Is it okay if you feel done after 6 or 7 minutes. I’m so exhausted and I feel like I need a break. My head is throbbing from crying so hard. I will have to come back to this again after some processing time.
About how you feel maybe. Or whatever the first thing that comes to your mind. My current observation was that I felt less fear and anxiety towards the traumatizing event/image.
