Most states now have convicted sex abuse registry so if his state is one of those states the police and his parole officer are keeping track. Also when a convicted sex abuser is released before his release the prison and police now have to notify the community and police department when and where the sex offender is going to or would like to be living, usually in a half way group home type setting. so the community where he is knows he is a convicted sex offender. The odds of him committing another abuse where he is in very low. Not saying it can't happen but he most likely is being watch VERY closely by the police, his parole officer and the community.

Basically flashbacks are memories of the abuse, Buried or not. But they happen because the person is ready to process that abuse situation.

The flashbacks will end..unfortunately it may be a while depending on what memory is coming to the surface.

You can speed up the memory process by doing activites that will force them to come on more (and most likey harder which was the case with me) so if you go this route like I do you will need your therapist help at times. for example keeping a jounal of what you are seeing, hearing and so on. You give the info to your therapist, they read it then in what I call lightening rounds the therapist asks questions starting with what is wrote down then pushing for more information.

You can push for more information on your own too. BUT I DO NOT RECOMMED DOING IT WITH OUT LETTING YOUR THERAPIST KNOW YOU ARE DOING THIS. IT CAN GET QUITE SCAREY AND SO ON THE FIRST FEW TIMES. You've heard of hypnosis right? Well I use my own version of it (professionals call what I do Self Hypnosis) to uncover my memories. Hypnosis is just deep relaxation and imagry working together. So the trick is to be so relaxed that you don't fight what you see, hear and so on. But yet it can get tricky if you have DID beecause a DID person naturally uses deep relaxation and imagry to leave mentally and enter their mental safe place. I kept slipping into my la la land so I added benedryl because it contains a low dose of the same medication for sleep aids. It allows me to get where I need to be but yet not have the emotion levels that send me into la la land. I take the pills then put on relaxation music, then remind myself to slow down my breathing and heart rate. (some people call slowing breathing and heartrate biorhythm). I imagine myself walking down a tunnel that the floor ramp stlye. at certain points the ramp take a small steepr slope downwards then levels. Kind of like walking down steps but I cant so steps. I have numbered these slopes 10-0. The starting point is 10 and where I want to go (memory access) is number 1. 0 is float out of my body and up into lala land. At each slope I remind myself that when I reach the door at level 1 and open that door I will be inside the nightmare or flashback that I am having trouble with and I will remember ONE thing from it to bring back with me. Most times it is a small piece of the nightmare/flashback. and then I come back up the ramp and write down what I saw, heard and so on.

This really does work so if you do this be prepared that what you experience al level 1 will most likely be something that is either going to shock you or upset you.

So why do I do this? Because I know that my flashbacks have gone on for years on their own and for me there is no way out of having them, ignoring them, going over around or under them. I am going to go through them anyway along with the pain they bring so for me it was a matter of how long I can hold on. I have better luck with the short term push, remeber and then they fade away. when I waited them out I landed in the mental health units. So when I notice they are at a standstlill (there but no new information showing up) I push them.

In general drawing writing and music help me when I have flashbacks. Take care.