CPTSD from years of gaslighting and lies and betrayals can evoke rage and emotional dysregulation

Hello-just want to let you know how much I appreciate that you are willing to sharing your knowledge with us. I appreciate that you want us all to be the best EMDR clinicians possible. Be Well.

@MichaelPatersonOBE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Christine, I appreciate that.

I have been doing emdr with my therapist. About 5 sessions, some sessions fitting about 4 emdr sets in one session. I've been walking around waiting to fight anyone or anything. Major rage! Totally not feeling safe around others lately, as I want to lash out. I know I never will, but the feelings feel so real and so in the moment ,that it takes everything in me to find something else to focus on. I see my therapist every two weeks. Thank you for this video it's helped explain what could be happening within.

@Mezzie1957

Жыл бұрын

Me too having the same after affect

@avertingapathy3052

Жыл бұрын

Client advice: carry non lethal weapons for when someone wants to make your day.

@wendi2819

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuasanders2449 do you have anything at your house like an old phone book, or anything you could just rip to shreds? There are videos on KZread doing Reiki, meditation and talk to help as it's coming up. In a real crisis see if your therapist will allow you to phone them. I find just listening to his words help me. Forrest Hanson/Rick Hanson has great videos on all kinds of issues. Look up SELF SOOTHING too. Best of luck in your journey.🙏🏼

I find anger to be an emotion and rage to be an energy state and I try to help clients differentiate the two because we need pro social anger to allow us to know what needs to change and to express that. Anger is not a survival energy state like rage. Rage is desperation-driven energy used to save a life/self or to fight off a bear/human or to lift a car off of a human being, but when it’s sitting in the body after trauma, and hasn’t been resolved, it pops up in self sabotage and other non-prosocial ways.

I’m not angry at a specific person, I just get triggered and snap.

Thank you very much for your sharing which has been very enriching. thank you very much from the heart

It sounds like ego state work is similar to chair work? Very interesting video, thanks! I have a client who is experiencing rage due to infidelity from the partner so this has been very helpful

I’m angry for a solid week after Emdr sessions. Not during Emdr. I don’t know what to do

@mustangjane77

Жыл бұрын

Use your resources such as safe place and container exercise. exercise. journal.

I have used the anger/revenge protocol with two clients and on both occasions the anger/desire for revenge did not really reduce as it was not good enough for them to only imagine doing it. They both said they would want that revenge in real life. How can this be addressed?

@EMDRMasterclass

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be able to guide you on this without knowing details of the cases; this forum isn't the place, as you know. Best you take these to supervision with an Accredited EMDR Consultant.

@MichaelPatersonOBE

3 жыл бұрын

What I wouldn't recommend is encouraging our clients to do it for real! If the straightforward visualization doesn't work, I would try asking the client to do a particular movement at the same time - e.g. punching a cushion, or squeezing tightly a rolled up towel.

@nancybaumgartner6774

2 жыл бұрын

When someone is bent on hanging onto their contempt and subsequent rage , there is nothing you can do except tell them this choice is theirs alone , but it’s a barrier to healing .

@TheBakingGirlShow

2 жыл бұрын

@@nancybaumgartner6774 anger is not a choice- it's a physiological response

So you have the client kill someone in their mind?