Lilbunnyfufu123

Last December, I was in a horrendous accident that involved me being trapped under my car for two hours in a snow storm with the exhaust pipe burning through my lower back, and ended with the local firetruck sliding into my car and fracturing my lumbar spine. Anyway...after I recovered from my wounds and surgeries (which took 4 months), I thought it was all over, until I started suffering from PTSD and depression which had been masked by the slew of painkillers and anti-anxiety meds I had been on since the accident. My symptoms increased and my father who is in law enforcement set me up with a psychologist who treats PTSD in FBI agents. I went to see the therapist and he preformed this strange set of hypnotism-like things on me called EMDR- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It includes me sitting with my eyes closed, concentrating and visualizing as detailed an account as possible. After I do this, my therapist helps me calm down and go to my 'serene place' where I am completely comfortable when he has me follow his fingers in a pathway from right to left close in front of my face. It sounds crazy, but the idea is that when you are in REM sleep, you are processing all the memories and the feelings and triggers attached to those memories. By me focusing on my terrifying accident and then following his fingers from side to side, I am reprocessing the feelings of terror and shock associated with being trapped or seeing a 4 ton firetruck careen into me with peace. It sounds really hokey but it has really helped me. If you know anything about psychology and how the brain processes memories and REM sleep and stuff like that, EMDR really makes alot of sense. I encourage you to do research or find a therapist that will preform this for you. My therapist worked with alot of Katrina victims and also 911 firefighters and police officers. I hope this will help you.