OMG, yes! Not any more, but for years I thought the flashbacks and memories were so bizarre, that I must be crazy and sick and making them up. I did have outside validation for some of the things, but not all. I don't know how common it is for people with traumatic memories to question themselves, but I know that those of us who have a dissociative disorder in addition to PTSD tend to questions ourselves quite a bit. Thank God for therapists over the years who helped me to understand more, and finally convinced me that I wasn't crazy. And, I'm thankful for God, because for me personally, so much of my healing and ability to make some sense of life has come from my relationship with God.

Sometimes the idea of me being a crazy, sick, manipulative liar who was desperate for attention seemed more appealing than believing the reality of the things I remembered.

It did help me a lot to find others who had experienced similar bizarre things, because I realized that those types of things actually do happen.