drug-related anxiety and EMDR

Hi,
Just a brief history of what I've gone through but in December of last year I had a very traumatizing bad trip on acid, and it affected me for months afterward-- giving me nightmares nightly so bad that I was afraid to sleep, etc... Now, recently I had a series of drug-induced flashbacks that were more traumatizing... they left me with anxiety disorder... Now I'm on three different kinds of anxiety medication, prescribed by my psychiatrist... I can trace my anxiety back to the flashbacks and also to the original bad trip. Just thinking about it makes me feel really sick and anxious and it takes a long time to get myself back to normal again. Now my therapist (a different person, not the one who prescribed the medication) wants to try EMDR on me... She thinks it will work to relieve the anxiety... Should I go through with it? It's not as if the bad trip is a repressed memory or anything-- I remember *everything* about it.... And considering the precise nature of the events, is this the therapy I should do? It's tempting... Everything I've read about EMDR sounds so great but I don't want to jump to conclusions and go into anything that isn't right for me... Just so everybody knows, if this makes any difference I'm a 17 year old girl in my senior year of high school...

Veronica

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Re: drug-related anxiety and EMDR, by Shapiro, 10/3/99

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