Is There More to EMDR Than Meets the Eye?

As usual, I often get a ‘feeling’ when a subject is meant to be covered. Two weeks ago I encountered someone who was treated with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), and as I take interest in people and new subjects, especially related to psychology, psychiatry and neurology, I said, ‘what is EMDR?’, then got out my notebook to write it down, as it ‘felt’ like I should really pay attention. As she explained the procedure I thought, well, that sounds a bit torturous.

The girl explained how she was sat in a chair and had to relive an experience in length and extreme detail whilst looking left to right continuously. She said after two sessions she refused any further ones, as she was drained, completely exhausted and detached from herself after the sessions.

The girl was a victim of multiple rapes, singular and gang, and had been asked to relive these encounters in depth, to desensitise herself, and have the ability to reprocess them.

I went home and had a very brief read about it and, as she had discussed, this was very much a wide spread tool used particularly for PTSD, and seen as highly valuable to recovery by the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).

I put this on the back burner, and thought, yes it is interesting and one day I will learn more about it. Then the week after I met another girl who had suffered similar experiences within her life, and was also sent for EMDR therapy. She also told me how awful it was, that she went home feeling ill and detached from herself. She only went twice and then found she was pregnant and they advised her it would be best in her condition to not continue. She expressed how relieved she was, as she had found the therapy physically and mentally sickening and not helpful at all.
I now got the hint that my next article was to be written and its subject matter decided upon. When we are mostly open to receiving we will always be given a lesson, and a nudge if we do not pay enough attention to it.

I believe it is of importance to pay attention to the nudges that we receive in our world. With deeper research into this subject it appears that EMDR was formulated by a woman called Francine Shapiro, who won the ‘International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy’. The story of revelation goes like this: she realised that she could feel calm going over old uncomfortable memories by altering her eye movements at speed, from side to side, as this eased her anxieties, then she researched this idea further with seventy people and EMDR is now considered safe, although there are questions of positive research bias.

The so called evidence supporting EMDR can be denied in light that it is just exposure therapy with eye movements, and has never been given as a stand alone treatment in trials, but has been accompanied with counselling, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) or relaxation therapies, so which tool is giving the ‘apparent’ success? This, however, is just academia squabble of bullshit vs bullshit, and my real concern is real people, not the Shopiros, Solomons and Shitbergers of the growing mental health industry who are taking us miserable bastards out one by one, with medications and therapeutic ‘tools’ that leave people feeling like Ladydawn:

Or like Bec:

Practitioners like to suggest that any re-traumatisation is due to inadequate following of instructions, or poor detailing to the client of the procedure that they are about to receive, so they go into shock all over again. They definitely don’t want to admit it is because nobody knows if this works, and if it does why, and that some jewish chick just thought it worked one day, and decided to cash it in the psychotherapy bank.

So, whether or not I am a conspiracy theorist who believes we get given synchronistic information from our metaphysical realm, consider this. If this mainstream tale of a practitioner’s journey to a now common used framework for regression and exposure which is taught to other practitioners globally is to be taken as the truth, then…

One day, one person who has read and been given examinations on lots of books based from the beliefs of a man, Fraud (who claims your ultimate hidden subconscious fantasy is fucking your parents because you are an ashamed anti-semite) she one day moved her eyes around really quickly when she was anxious, and says it helped and thinks it could be linked to REM, and gives grand details of how the eye movement is of importance, yet herself and other practitioners have used noises instead for blind patients, and some practitioners prefer tapping the knee instead.

She apparently has no idea what it is, maybe it is just the exposure therapy which gives EMDR such a high success rate? Maybe it is because people are often given relaxation therapy and counselling at the same time, who knows, who cares, this is a blessing of a tool, right?

Maybe all of the people saying how fabulous this technique is are actually talking shit, have no proof and are endangering people? The academic literature is contradictory, unproven guesswork that is making people suffer through a really horrific experience, all over again, and again, leaving them emotionally drained and dissociated from who they are.

I do not feel like myself, I do not feel like I am even in my own body”

The girls who discussed EMDR with me both said that they felt exhausted, upset, drained and dissociated. Now you can say that it takes more than a few sessions to work, and this is often the response, but I see this as cruel, loveless and empty. Clients are often asked to say phrases like,

I am about to die” and then later “I can make it”

It all sounds so… therapeutic? A therapy should heal not harm; actually the origin of the word therapy is to heal. How can we sit our people down and ask them to relive their most awful events whilst just moving their eyes or changing the frame at a sound? One awful frame after another,

burnt into my brain”

I am not saying people should not discuss and benefit from regression and healing, but I question where the care and compassion is in this guesswork of torture. Is it bizarre that from my first thought of this therapy, I instinctively saw it as a form of institutional torture?

If we look at this from the point of view, who are the most likely to suffer from shellshock, I mean PTSD? You got it, our used-up military men. The downside to EMDR, which is openly admitted, is that a person’s memory will fade and become distant.

Because of this the treatment should not be used on people who could be called upon as a witness to a crime, as their evidence is no longer valid; they can no longer sufficiently recall memories correctly. An example would be a rape victim who is awaiting the trial of her attacker.

To have this therapeutic tool on hand to fade people’s memories or have them constantly reliving traumatic events over and over in their minds whilst being dissociated, could be a handy tool, especially when these people are trained weapons of mass destruction and highly associated with mind control experiments. I am sure I am just being paranoid, right?

When global practitioners are trained in EMDR, they are also given information upon “Torture-Based Mind Control: Psychological Mechanisms of Installation and Continued Control” at the same training events. Weird, huh? I am sure it is just because the practitioner may encounter treating patients who may have suffered torture and have PTSD because of it, so it would make sense to be trained upon both.

Of course, though, when you type in MK Ultra and EMDR you get a lot of reptilian and alien information in abundance, which makes it all a little harder to decipher or understand because of the validity of the information. Or does it? Recently the whole ‘alien’ idea has appeared as quite an obvious mind control operation to me, which was also highlighted by Renegade in their recent documentary. My confirmation of this was the abundance of Hollywood movies with aliens in them, as there are almost as many as there are about the holocaust.

This subject has raised more questions than supplied answers, but I am comfortable with that, if you are.

Has EMDR been used on people for a lot longer than we are led to believe? Do they know the outcomes, and are now readily throwing this ‘therapeutic’ tool out there en masse to people with PTSD? Let’s face it, PTSD is no longer just for real trauma, but for those who are in shock due to being disagreed with, so EMDR could become a mass mind control tool that is now being used for anxiety, depression, bulimia, learning difficulties, nerves, and soon breathing I am sure will be on the list of criteria.

I am not in any way belittling those suffering the effects from massive trauma, not for a second, but I am concerned for their well being and the treatments being offered. They may soon be given to us all to treat, something or anything, ensuring we are all fantasising, unaware of reality, full of fear, dissociated and emotionally drained.

From the pages, Ritual abuse, the quote clearly states that mind control creates dissociative symptoms and leads to personality disorders. Also it is easier to bring people to the point of personality disorders when they already have had disassociated episodes (traumas) in their lives, making EMDR a tool that can easily bring people into quite a disturbed way of being.

As we all move away from pills and beg for therapy, are we sitting ducks either way? People I have known on medication also report the same side effect of not being inside of themselves anymore, being removed from who they are.

Are they bringing about a new human, one who is shell shocked, one way or another? After all, since we are under a bombardment of psychological warfare causing us massive disturbance, we are prime candidates for being dissociated using EMDR, for any and all of our psychological treatment needs.

If we do not get a grip soon, we will be empty men with nothing to fight for, and are we almost there. I cannot remember the last time I encountered a real person who was not playing some sort of role in this world. People are empty, filled with stereotypes, roles and memes.

So look at your folk, look them in the eye, feel their presence, hold their hands, love and be loved, stop avoiding your life, feel it, feel everything, the good and the bad, hold it, embrace it, live it. A life monitor goes up and down, it does not beep flat-lined, as that is death, and life is up and down, so stop hiding from it and be alive, be awake, feel who you are and live. Their weapon is removing you from yourself, because you are their biggest threat when you are a feeling human being who is bringing out the ‘real people’ within communities.

So feel, be full, be alive, be ready, be brave, be who you are, not who they want you to be. There is no more room for empty souls here. We are full of empty souls; they have taken our brave military men and destroyed them. Do not let them take our nations now that our protective men have been emptied, given PTSD, made homeless and hungry, sleeping on our streets. Live, live for them. They lost themselves for you; they thought they were fighting for you. So get up, stand up and take your moment, love your kin, your neighbour, stop bickering over words and thoughts. We are at war with something more important than just ourselves – our entire people are in danger!

First they empty, then they replace. Look around at your fellow men. Where are they? Who are they?

Who will protect us now?

There is only you, so feel, or fail.

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