"Helped my son immensely"

My son was really ill.  He had a psychotic break and spent weeks in PICU and in Lime Ward in Omagh, in the Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital.  He was put onto high doses of anti-psychotic medication and allowed home where he fell under the care of the community team at SWAH.  From his first appointment, he was introduced to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and started improving.  He found it really beneficial - as did our whole family.  It reduced anxiety and helped him gain control and perspective when his thoughts began running away with him.  His nurse was excellent and we really couldn't have asked for a more professional and more compassionate health care professional.  Immediately I felt my son was listened to and I felt that his health care professional was concerned wtih what my son was concerned about i.e. anxiety and reducing medication.  EMDR was a really useful tool and it meant a focus on the future and well-being as opposed to raking over the past.  In my son's case this was really helpful.  

He is now completely off medication, going from 4mg of risperadone in April / May.  He reduced slowly with the help of EMDR and is now drug free.  He has returned to College in England and is feeling great.

I think that EMDR was really beneficial in his case and I am so happy with the care he got.  We never expected him to recover so quickly.  It is unbelievable how well he is considering how ill he was just a few short months ago.  He is confident going forward, using EMDR whenever he starts to feel anxiety.