[quote=Moodswing;3164942]Well, as hankster says, no, Emotional Flashbacks are not "new" to psychologists. However, I have read a lot on my own and have never come across something as "well written" as this article you have posted. I am definitely going to share it with my T too, because while we have discussed different aspects of the elements discussed in this article, he has never explained it to me as well as this article explains it.

I also suffer from "body memories" too and I "have" talked to my T about having deep depressive days but these days are just like "flashbacks" when I was very young and so stressed that I felt completely depleted. I talked about it as "situational" because of how the situations I have been in lately have triggered these deep depressive full body "flashbacks" to happen to me.
I do not suffer from this constantly, and I am positive, I am having "flashbacks" and can even remember the situations where these severely depressive states occurred in me.

I am so glad you posted this because it will help me with my therapist as it is described so well in this article as I have mentioned.

Please don't get angry with your T for not telling you how you are challenged just as this article does. I have a wonderful T and he has not explained it to me the same way as this article does, I am not going to get "angry" with him for that. After all this article is "recent" and was put out this year. While PTSD has been known about for a while, they are still studying it all the time and just in the past 5 years have gained a better understanding of it. The entire field of psychology is still in it's infancy really because there is so much we have yet to learn about the human brain.

As I mentioned, I share with my T and if I find something that hits home with me, even whatever "new" has come out, I bring it and he reads it and he also makes copies of it for other patients. He is learning all the time from his patients and "therapy" really is a "team" effort IMHO. Remember, not all patients can "verbalize" their challenges either. And T's have to be "very patient" and try not to "overwhelm" their patients too.

The other thing that is "positive" about sharing your own "research" with a T is, that if you do find something that is very helpful and share it with your T, often T's get together with other T's and support and share with each other and if something informative like this comes to their attention, they do share it and discuss it. I know my T does that which is a "win, win" for patients like you and me and others that need all the support they can get. There "are" T's out there that really "do" want to "help" their patients "heal" as best as they can. Not all of them just "go through the motions" for a pay check.

OE