Evan Rachel Woodis letting the tears flow.
“It’s a kind of trauma therapy and I must say, is absolutely fantastic,”Wood wrote on Instagram, along with a photo of her mascara-stained face. “Crying has never felt so good.”
In EMDR therapy, people think back to a traumatic event and then use their eyes to track a therapist’s hand movements.
Wood said she highly recommends the therapy.
“For people struggling with their past traumas and have the means to do so (which everyone should and it pisses me off that mental health is a luxury) I highly recommend this intense but very effective treatment,” she said. “This is what I look like after a session. Been through a lot, purged a lot, but my eyes are clear and hopeful.”
Wood added: “Also, NO. SHAME. IN. GETTING. HELP.”
Wood revealed in 2016that she has been raped twice, and suffered “physical, psychological [and] sexual abuse.”
And in January, theWestworldstar said thatshe attempted suicide at age 22after the years of abuse, which pushed her to seek help and check into a psychiatric hospital.
“Looking back, it was the worst, best thing that ever happened to me,” Wood wrotein an essay forNylon. “The beautiful thing about being at the bottom is there is nowhere to go but up. I wasn’t supposed to be alive, so nothing I did at that point mattered. I had already proven to myself nothing mattered. So, I may as well surrender.”
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Wood realized thatshe was struggling with PTSD“and didn’t know it.”
She made significant progress in the hospital with the help of medication and eventually checked out, and in the years since, Wood has continued going to therapy and slowly weaned herself off of the medication.
“Depression isn’t a weakness, it’s a sickness. Sometimes a deadly one. And sometimes all people need is to know that they are loved and that others are there for them,” she said.
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “home” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
source: people.com
