Hi, all - this is my first post on this forum, I usually post on the Psychotherapy forum.

Last week, my therapist suggested that we try EMDR for some stuck memories that I have. I think we're going to focus on one trauma in particular - I remember parts of this event well, other parts not so much. So, because I'm far too analytical for my own good and must research everything to death, I got a book on EMDR. I was just reading it, about a war veteran who was having horrible flashbacks and was describing them to his therapist before the EMDR, when all of a sudden I was hit with a memory of me in the middle of my trauma - it was like I was back there, I started to shake and cry. But this memory wasn't what I usually remember, it was one of those lost parts of the memory, but I know it's real and it's what happened. It actually went away just as quickly as it had come to me, but it really threw me! So is that what is considered a flashback? I wasn't even sure that I had what is considered PTSD, since in my mind, what I went through wasn't a big T trauma (life-threatening, natural disaster, loved one dying).