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When survivor guilt complicates trauma processing

I'm doing EMDR for medical trauma from cancer treatment but every time we work on it I feel guilty like I should be grateful to be alive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your mind creates competing narratives about whether your suffering is valid, preventing full integration of painful experiences.

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