<font color="#000088">I have PTSD,and when I have flashbacks,I actually Dissociate back to the time when the abuse accured that the flashback is coming from.It gets pretty scary at times,and sometimes it can last for hours,it depends on which flashback I'm having.
So it's not uncommon,it happens to more people than you'ld think.Sometimes I dissociate if my stress is getting to high and I can't handle whats going on,I'll just go into a different world of my own,and it's almost impossible for anyone to reach me when I'm there.It's like I'm there physically,but mentally I'm completely somewhere else.I pretty much go into a catatonic state. Until my mind feels like it can handle coming back.But that bad of a dissociative state doesn't happen very often with me,usually I've already been hospitalized before those occur,because of things getting so bad with me. </font>