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I am wondering about peoples experiences with EMDR, regardless of diagnosis. I am intrigued about this treatment pathway after reading "the body keeps the score". Unfortunately there are no practitioners in my area that offer the service, has anyone had any experience doing EMDR on them selfs? Or even professionally and what was your experience please

Hello. I am on a healing journey currently and thought it may be a good idea for me to join a group to talk through some issues as part of my healing. I have multiple diagnosis, Major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, CPTSD, body dysmorphia, and an eating disorder, and am 2 months sober from cannabis use disorder. I have a daughter who is 1 year old and decided that I MUST heal my self to the best of my ability to ensure that I do not traumatized my daughter by being broken emotionally and not present for her. I do not want her to learn any of the coping survival behaviours I have been using all of these years. I started with treatment of cannabis use disorder because it was exacerbating my eating disorder and other diagnosis', I am now working through my trauma and eating disorder on my own. I am on a year long wait list for treatment of both, but unfortunately unless i am suicidal or on my death bed from the eating disorder I cannot receive treatment any sooner so I have taken things into my own hands.

My trauma. My trauma includes a lot of physical and emotional abuse from my uncles, sister, and mother. I was molested twice by two different people before the age of 10, I know a lot of death, lots of my friends have died, I was in a 3 year long abusive relationship, grew up in poverty, my moms boyfriend who knew me since i was a child tried to groom me a soon as i turned of age, and I am a health care professional which comes with its own trauma.

What I have done to treat my self on my own. I started writing down grouped by person every bad memory I had of that person, i then went back to those pages weeks later and wrote down the feelings that accompanied them, and then I started researching more on those feelings. As of recently I started doing an online eating disorder program and working through that, I am almost done reading "the body keeps the score" by Bessel van der klok, and purchased many more books, I started keeping a dream log as I have chronic nightmears and terrors/sleep paralysis, and I joined this group.

I am an amazing mother, I love my daughter unconditionally and have removed myself from any harmful environments to ensure her safety and mental peace, and now I am working as hard as I can to ensure I can lead by example. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, it is painful and I am fighting this battle alone as I do not have anyone other than my husband who doesn't understand emotional pain and suffering that I trust. I am hoping to find some support and recommendations through this group.