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Hi all,

I just have to share, the next session with my therapist is not for another week... For a while I've been struggling with emotional flashbacks during stressful moments. I thought it was the stress itself, and it probably is, but I think I've discovered another trigger: being alone. It sounds so simple, but I think I have separation anxiety. With the thought of that, and while doing some research, it's like pieces falling together.

Now I know another big cause of my problems, I can do something about it. Hooray! 

Hi all,

I started treatment with EMDR 2.5 years ago, and I have an EMDR session of 1.5h every two weeks. The other weeks in between I have a normal session of 45min. I've made a lot of progress in those 2.5 years, but the last months my PTSD had gotten a lot worse. Is it possible that EMDR deteriorates PTSD symptoms? Does anyone else have experience with EMDR treatment of multiple years?

Thanks in advance!

Long story short: over 2 years of EMDR therapy (overall almost 15 years of therapy), started working again (volunteer work) half a year ago. Whenever I encounter stress at work, it puts me back in the past.  I go into some kind of state where I can't tell the difference between then and now and feel a lot of anxiety and despair. It always takes me a while to come back to my life right now. At this point I don't know what to do anymore: keep on working and hoping it gets better, that I will adjust, or quit working so my days don't have these major downs. I want to do what it takes to recover, but I don't know what the best option is.