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Originally Posted by skeksi
There can be different kinds of flashbacks, but the key is that what you are experiencing feels as real as what else is going on in reality at that moment. If I am talking with T about something and I get reminded of a trauma, I might begin seeing it in my head, reacting physically as if it were happening again. Part of me knows I am there with T but part of me feels like I am back in the trauma.
When we get "stuck" in a flashback, we are paying more attention to reexperiencing the memory than to our present reality. When a T keeps bringing your attention back to your present experience, it is an effort to help you stay out of that. Does that make sense?
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I didn't know there could be different kinds of flashbacks. When this thing is happening it is real. In fact it is the only thing that I see and feel. For the time I am in it there is no other reality. Just what I am experiencing in that moment. I don't have other thoughts, the idea of grounding is unknown to me when I am in it. There is no one to tell me anything. It is me little in a room with someone I know who is not comforting me. Things are happening to me that I will not say. I told my t what happened. She said it was a flashback. Is a flashback an alter? Is it the memory of an alter? This is where I get confused. The little one is still in that situation even though it happened when I was little. There is so much confusion. I appreciate you responding and the information you gave did help. Thanks