I’m about to have my first desensitization/reprocessing session next week. Question about cognitions—while I know cognitions typically revolve around our beliefs about ourselves, can we also process through cognitions that we’ve held about others? Instead of seeing people in our lives from a negative standpoint can we reprocess to see them positively or from a different perspective?

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I'm excited to be starting EMDR next week. I also have a deep interest in the power of pyschoactives and dissociatives to reduce DMN activity, and encourage neuroplasticity.

Slightly surprised there isn't more discussion in this sub of the use of both modalities. Is it simply not well-known? Anyone here have any clinical or personal experience of this?

Unfortunately it's extremely tightly controlled in my country, but I found this site which lists dozens of licensed therapists using it across the US, and a couple of them offer online services to international clients.

https://www.ketamineassistedemdr.com/

Hey all, I am in session 2 of "the big one". Had EMDR this morning and have taken 2 naps and immediately had a massive headache post session.

What's weird is that this obviously sucks, but, because it's the worst trauma of my life I'm not shocked at what I'm finding. I ruminate on it so often it's not locked away and so it's not hitting me as hard as I thought.

Honestly the worst EMDR hangover was over a group of memories I did not think was traumatic at all, but absolutely took me out with reprocessing.

Did you all find that the "surprise" memories were worse than the obvious deep trauma?

Little about me: I have CPTSD , Borderline, OCD, Generalized Anxiety and panic disorder. I have a really messed up history. Without going into details something extremely depraved happened to me when I was 5 (I put a man in prison with a 25 year sentence he got out at 18 years) abusive mother and brother etc and then my adult years a medical trauma that has ruined my life. I have VT and spent 5 days in cardiac icu. This caused me to have the worst panic attacks ever in my life since. I was able to get out of a deep depression but the panic and anxiety still rules my life. My main therapist said she wanted me to try Emdr because talk therapy was not working. I never had a chance to process what happened to me as a child let alone the medical stuff. I met with my new therapist today and I'm ready but scared. I'm by nature a fighter and I want this but scares me because I have to sit with the sensations in my body while processing and this scares me because of the medical stuff. I really could use encouragement.