Emdr

[Mark_Stevens]

EMDR has helped me a bit although still having blackouts

There is no wright or ring with emdr.

Good luck

[Nathalie99 Partner]

Thank you for sharing your experience with EMDR, Mark_Stevens.

I'm glad it helped you but I am very sorry to hear you have blackouts.

You can try different modalities to see if they help with the blackouts, like maybe TRE, somatic experiencing or a specialized therapy for dissociation.

[Lindyloo53 Volunteer]

Nathalie has offered some good suggestions. I’ve found emdr very helpful but have had to couple it with using powerful grounding tools at the first sign of dissociation. I realised early on the emdr alone would not stop the dissociative amnesia (is this what you call blackouts?). I had to learn how to identify when I was beginning to slip into this. For me it always starts with my face going numb then progresses to feeling like things are far away then to looking through a veil. I wasn’t able to identify these things in the beginning but am able to now.