"The nature of the beast" of PTSD! And there's no slaying this dragon! i hate it when I lose time ...usually when someone raises their voice ...I know it's bad when we get thunderstorms (I was disabled during one) but it's our dry season... and still I get triggered.
Flashbacks are the pits. It's been uphill all the way, and last week I was again told (I was told I have been told often before...) that there is no cure for PTSD just some place better... my suspicious mind of ptsd tells me it isn't true.
So I'm still working on preplanning. It hasn't helped yet. I can think about a situation coming up, and all the different ways it could go, and affect me... and I can even write down and re read often all the different things that I should know when it happens (trigger?) but then something happens and I realize only much later what I had done in response. Yeah, I guess I am better because always before ..when flashback or such happened... I never remembered it.
BUT if this is the best it will get forget this! Life ain't worth it, especially if "better" is still "bad." Just thot you'd wanna know...