Dissociation Caused by Triggers?

So a while back, someone here said EMDR can sometimes be contraindicated in people with cPTSD because they experience a lot of dissociation.

I've been asking around, and now I have some extra questions.

I was told elsewhere the reason why it increases dissociation is because people with severe trauma already have a very narrow therapeutic window (between hyperawarenes and hypoawareness/dissociative states) - and the EMDR process would have to be very closely monitored or else the "window" gets even narrower for the individual to the point of extremes
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Please correct me if I'm understanding that wrong.

Also, if anyone here experienced the whole narrowing thing leading to a drastic increase in dissociation from anything, how long did it take for you to return to your baseline?

And what did you find helped?

I took the following from another post in this subforum

"... emotional fragments, but they wouldn't be developed to the point where they would have their own thoughts and opinions."

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What would these emotional fragments do then?

Lastly, if anyone is comfortable with it, what types of psychosis do you experience from your PTSD or cPTSD?

I don't know how the emdr is going to affect me. Yesterday my the psychologist did a dissociative personality test on me and it came back that I do have symptoms. She told me that because of this I will need to have a lot of work done before I have the emdr so that's all I know.

That's awesome that she knows about that.

It's been new info for me, and even though I never suggest people to work on their actual trauma, I have mentioned it as a way of coping with triggers.
I hope I haven't ###$ anyone up (including myself)

If you guys ever discuss psychosis in dissociation and cPTSD or if you find things that help and you ever feel like posting it, I'd value it.

Yeah I reckon she knows her stuff.

She said that because it sounds like I've got different personalities and that some are protectors then the emdr may have to be postponed for a while because one of these protectors will stop me from remembering the trauma. It's complex stuff when you think about it.

It is extremely complex stuff.
So then I wonder if she thinks you have DID

Do you recognize your different personalities?

She hasn't said its DID. She calls them different parts.

She's talking about getting to know them so that'll be interesting.

I kind of do recognise them but only when I realise that one of them has done something or behaved in a certain way and I just have absolutely no connection to the event. I can remember it but its as if someone else has done it and I can't imagine being like that.

It's like someone might tell me about myself and I'll deny being like that because at the time I'm not that person and the person who they're talking about is completely separate.

Thank you for the reply

I don't really have any useful information for you, but I am following this thread now because I am sort of in a similar boat. CPTSD with dissociation. I've been considering EMDR for a while now. Apparently I came on this board last summer and asked some questions about it, though I was surprised when I saw that today, because I can't remember doing that.

I have been diagnosed with CPTSD, Anxiety, BPD and depression. I have managed these in my life, unfortunately, through various addictions to help me "get out of my head." I am on god knows how many meds to help, which it really doesn't except to take the edge slightly off. My dissociation is around sex abuse when I was a child. I have slipped into it when highly stressed and go into self-harm behaviors.

I am doing EMDR now and for me, it has been a godsend. It helps me understand how this event, lead to that, and why I think how I think. But it also has helped take the constant focus on those events away.

I haven't had any side effects in terms of disassociation, the therapist is trained to know when to stop, take a breath and continue on if ready. Just make sure you get a therapist who has done it for a while, there are some that just take a course as its the latest "thing" to say you know. You do want someone who understands trauma.

Just my two cents...good luck!