u/mentallywonky

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do hangovers get better?

i had my first emdr session 2 days ago and my therapist did warn me that I could feel a hangover, when I got home after the session I had an online meeting, I felt really tired but I hadn’t really gotten a lot of sleep the night before so I thought I just needed to sleep. Then yesterday I started feeling really weird physically, I have dysautonomia so I think I’m having a flare up, and I couldn’t do any uni work because I felt really dizzy and weak. Cut to last night, im talking to my boyfriend on discord and im struggling to find the right words when speaking, i thought I must be really tired. I’ve had some experience with brain fog because of the dysautonomia, but it usually doesn’t last long. Today I also couldn’t get any work done, im struggling even typing this post because the letters don’t make sense.

My question is, if this is an emdr hangover, will it get better? I have another session scheduled for next week but as I haven’t gotten any uni work done because I’ve felt all sorts of bad, im not sure if it’s in my best academic interest to continue with the sessions. Was it just really bad because it was the first session? Or should I just wait until the semester’s done and then continue?

I’m so sorry if this doesn’t make sense, as I said, words are hard right now

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u/mentallywonky — 1 day ago