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EMDR疗法如何帮助克服创伤？
什么是创伤？
心理学家将创伤称为几乎每个人都会感到不安的事件，涉及恐惧、无助和恐惧的反应。 创伤可以是对令人深感痛苦或不安的事件或经历的心理和情感反应，可能导致个人对自己、他人和世界产生限制，有时是不准确的信念。
为什么我们会有创伤？
当个体经历了单一事件或长期或重复的事件，这些事件如此压倒性，它们影响了他们应对或理解所发生事情的能力时，就会发生心理创伤。 这些经历会以非理性情绪、能量阻塞和身体症状以及大脑功能变化的形式在身心中固定下来。 你不能消除已经发生的事情； 然而，你可以治疗创伤在身体、思想和灵魂上留下的印记。
创伤常常使你失去对自己生活的掌控感。 因此，恢复的挑战是重新建立对自己身体和心灵的所有权意识。
EMDR therapy is a very effective treatment for dealing with trauma – NICE guidelines and the World Health Organisation recommend it as one of their first-line treatment options for anyone who had experienced trauma. EMDR可以帮助你走向康复和精神健康。
“It’s important to remember that events and experiences are subjective - individuals process traumatic events differently because we view them through the lens of prior experiences. 正因为如此，EMDR关注你的个人经历和事件的意义。 EMDR直接处理的是这种经历对你——病人——的影响。” says Jennifer.
EMDR – Julie’s story
我曾与一位50岁出头的客户合作，她遭遇了一场严重的摩托车事故。 这位客户已经骑摩托车20多年了。 然而，事故发生后，她远离了她的朋友，不敢骑摩托车。 她已经从每天骑摩托车走遍全国，变成只能在离家三英里的半径范围内骑摩托车。
每次她骑上摩托车，她的身体都会产生恐惧和恐慌的反应。 她会喘不过气来，满头大汗，感到胸口和脖子剧痛，并产生消极的想法，认为自己不安全。 在她的治疗过程中，她会报告对另一个司机感到生气。 The client viewed the other driver as ‘just getting on with her life’, whereas she felt she had been robbed of her passion.
The client perceived that her identity as a ‘biker’ had been taken away from her, so she felt angry.
EMDR帮助朱莉克服了这些感觉
EMDR疗法帮助朱莉处理事故，并意识到她的情绪、适应不良的想法和与事故相关的身体症状。 During the therapy, the client could not get rid of images of the ‘red car’ that hit her and the driver’s ‘smirking face’.
在我们对她进行治疗的过程中，朱莉想起了她童年早期的一件事，当时她大约五岁。一天晚上，她父亲下班后醉醺醺地回家。 She remembered seeing her father’s ‘red face’ as he smashed a glass table, leaving her feeling helpless and unsafe. That evening, she had feared for her and her mother’s safety; 每当她听到父亲的动静，她的身体就会惊慌失措，预料着他是否会对她或她的母亲大发雷霆。
The next day, Julie remembers thinking her father was able to ‘just get on with his life as though nothing had happened’ just as she perceived the driver who hit her to be ‘getting on with her life’ without a care for her actions. EMDR帮助客户端连接并理解这两个事件。 At the end of her therapy, she could acknowledge difficulties in her relationship with her father and more importantly get back on her motorbike and reclaim her identity as a ‘biker’.
Trauma with a ‘t’
创伤后应激障碍 doesn’t have to be caused by a terrorist attack or being in the military – although these are regarded as big “T” traumas, the small “t” traumas can also have a profound negative effect. Small “t” traumas can be considered mild but upsetting experiences that occur in everyday life but result in some of the same feelings as big “T” traumas.
“Most of the people I see who have 创伤后应激障碍 have it as a result of being involved in road traffic accidents, surgical operations, difficult childbirths, being bullied at school, bullied in the workplace, childhood neglect, sexual molestation, physical/mental abuse, gang-related issues or bereavement. They often feel that somehow, they don’t classify as having experienced trauma and that their experiences aren’t as important or bad as someone in the military. But they are, and small ‘t’ events can have just as devastating impacts as the better-known bit ‘T’ events.” says Jennifer.