Body Memory-Need Feedback

by **salted lipstick** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:10 am

I have to really strongly agree with all of the words of caution offered by Boopsy...

especially this bit:

boopsy26 wrote:EMDR can be potentially harmful to people with DID. Because we are not aware of our memories and they are so dissociated, EMDR can easily flood, retraumatize, and send somebody into crisis.

and this:

boopsy26 wrote: it is helpful as an adjunct to long term therapy and should not be used until after a long stabilization period and time for a sufficient, trusting, therapy relationship to form.

and this:

boopsy26 wrote:The fact that she's offering a low rate because she needs people to "train" on says to me that she is not fully aware of just how long it should be before EMDR is ever introduced into treatment for DID.

Remember, just because it's cheap doesn't necessarily ensure that it is the best treatment option for you at the moment... Not to be discouraging or anything... I really do hope it works out for you if you decide to go ahead with it.

Alln1 wrote:Ya know what more than anything i think would be healing for us now. It is just this. Being able to share, being able to get honest feedback, and feeling glad that their are a few that respond to me. I remember a patient in the hospital sever years ago that just kept repeating, "Where is the love?, I can't find the love?, Where's the love?, I can't find the love." She was quite out of it. I have felt like that sometimes now though. And ask the same questions, but keep pushing through cause the Lion in the Wizard of Oz, got a new heart. Or was it the Tin Man? And i think that is what we are after. To learn how to really love ourselves and be there for us. An in the by and by , pick up a couple of friends that are there for us as well. I'm reminded of that song All We Need Is Love.

Beautiful!!!

by **Alln1** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:15 pm

Thanks for your responses. At one point sometime during the night last night, part of me woke up and had this feeling, as if our low back was a well and alot of the abuse had been poured into it. Also like there was alot of internal work going on, during the night. Plus i slept much longer than i usually do.
Have any of you ever had the EMDR work? Would you please tell me your experience if you did. Plus i will read about it on this fourm. My first appointment, is just an intake as well. I am taking all of your advise seriously. And am doing more reseach as well as checking in with everyone. Blessings

by **Alln1** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:56 pm

Someone posted about TRE by David Berceli. I had never heard of it, but started doing some research on it, and find it quite amazing. Expecially because it is so natural. Exercises to release trauma. I responded to the post. Just wanted to mention it here. Thanks again for all of you!

by **sev0n** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:46 pm

salted lipstick wrote: whole thread where I write my body memories down but beware, you may find it triggering: post-traumatic-stress/topic67719.html
I haven't got all of my body memories written there yet, but I'm working on it.

I was confused by the title, but Salted thread makes it clear it means Somatic Illness and Body Memory.

Definitions for my own help in understanding
http://www.sidran.org/sub.cfm?contentID=38&sectionid=4
body memory This popularly-used term is actually a misnomer. The body does not have neurons capable of remembering; only the brain does. The term refers to body sensations that symbolically or literally captures some aspect of the trauma. Sensory impulses are recorded in the parietal lobes of the brain, and these remembrances of bodily sensations can be felt when similar occurrences or cues restimulate the stored memories.(Lenore Terr, M.D., personal correspondence, 31 August 1994). For example, a person who was raped may later experience pelvic pain similar to that experienced at the time of the event. This type of bodily sensation may occur in any sensory mode: tactile, taste, smell, kinesthetic, or sight. Body memories may be diagnosed as somatoform disorder. See also somatic memory.

somatic memory "A physical sensation or change in physical functioning without the presence of organic illness, that represents a dissociated aspect of a traumatic or abusive experience." ISSD Practice Guidelines, Glossary, 1994. See also body memory.

I know both of these well. I have only just recently started to accept that I do have some Somatic Illness/Memory - as much as I hate to admit that! There is still so much about this that I want to understand.

I have body movements that are freaky where my body parts move on their own! Creepy! I had always thought of this as Body Memory and accepted it.

This is where I thought my Pseudoseizures fit in. Is this incorrect?

by **Alln1** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:16 am

Thanks for that information Tylas. I believe what you are experiencing might be neurogenic tremors. If you watch some of the clips on TRE by David Berceli, you can see what they look like and compare them to what it is you are having. I found it amazing, and have had alot of release in my body, doing just a few of the basic exercises. Blessings

by **sev0n** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:50 am

I did glance at that before now that you put it that way - when I was trying to see what was going on. I will watch some of that tonight.

Just me --- the bed and my netbook. :wink:

by **Alln1** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:50 pm

tylas
Have you found out any new information?

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