Discouraged

Recently I went through my first "offical EMDR" session. I was discouraged with the results. I really do not feel as though anything happened or that anything changed. The images that came to mind were things that I had isolated as small "t"s. I think that I was expecting other "subpressed" memories to surface. My small "t" in my opinion do not appear to be enough to cause my insecurities, lack of confidence ect.

I mentioned to my therapist that maybe the problem was that I had done too much reading on EMDR and was expecting my case to be textbook. When the reprocessing was not occuring I became more tense and afraid that this was not going to work for me. Can a patient "try to hard" or have unrealistic expectations that could interfer with the therapy?

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