Why You Still Feel It: Trauma, the Body, and Whether EMDR Can Help

You’ve been coming to therapy for a while. Talking about what has happened in the past, what continues to spark in your memory. You’ve been exercising, stopping drinking coffee, limiting alcohol, getting rest, spending time with friends, taking Instagram off your phone... doing all of the things and still….

Why does this $^%^&!! still affect me?

You might not even call it TRAUMA anymore.
You might call it stress. 

Burnout.

Anxiety.

You’ve said in therapy… “It wasn’t even that bad.”

But you still can’t fully relax.
Your mind loops.
Your sleep is off.
You feel on edge or you feel nothing at all. 

Trauma (and your response to it) is not a character flaw.  It’s your nervous system’s response. And it doesn’t simply fade with time.