dealing with fallout from emdr session

I just did my first emdr session yesterday. It seemed to go well - SUDS reduced from 9 to 2, and validitiy of positive cognition increased from 1 to 5. I felt fine there, felt great on the way home, and then when I got home felt emotions hit like a ton of bricks.

By nighttime I was wired but exhausted at the same time - I barely got any sleep last night. Today I can't stop crying and generally feeling most of the time like I can't cope with this. I do have moments where I feel less bad.

I have a bad headache and it feels like this is never going to be over, tho I know that isn't true.

Any suggestions on how to get thru this more easily? Should I expect this? I feel silly not knowing - I am a therapist who does emdr as well but never been thru major emdr work myself before now.

I guess when I felt ok while I was there - had been very scared to try it cuz have witnessed pretty bad abreactions and have recently integrated from DID - I thought I would be ok when I got home too. But it is hitting me worse than I expected, in the aftermath tho the session itself was far easier than I anticipated.

Replies:

Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 06/12/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/13/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by a client, 06/13/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/13/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/13/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 06/13/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by a client, 06/13/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/13/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by a client, 06/14/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/14/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by a client, 06/15/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 06/15/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by A Client, 06/15/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by , 06/15/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 06/15/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/16/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by , 06/15/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/16/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by , 06/16/02 Re:dealing with fallout from emdr session, by karen2001, 06/13/02

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