The reason why T wants me to talk about the abuse, is because it takes the power away from the memories. By talking about it with T, he is able to help me ground in the moment as well as learn to process the feelings and emotions of those flashback in an adult way. I was abused as a child too, and all of those feelings are stored in my brain with childlike feelings and I needed to learn (or still do) how to react now that I am an adult in a more rational, supported way.

I would say that don't start doing it, unless you know you have a support person in place to help you cope while all those memories are stirred up. T and I also visited the site of one particular traumatic event for me.. and they only way I got through the next two months w/o going inpatient was through the help of T and my bff... So, that is very important thing to have when starting to process the memories.

I am still with some disturbing flashbacks and T has asked me to consider EMDR to help with them. Maybe you can explore that as an option?