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I started getting flashbacks in my therapy session yesterday. We were just sitting on the floor and talking about my family when the images started flashing through my mind. It was the door slamming over and over again at first then I started getting flashes of my sister crying and me trying to get the door open. My therapist probably noticed because I wasn't talking and she kept asking, "Where are you right now?"
I was anxious and I just couldn't talk. It took a while before I told her what I was remembering. The anxiety died down and then, I just didn't feel anything at all. I felt like I was in a daze the entire day. I remember getting on the train to get home but I can't remember anything else. I was there but not really there, if that makes sense. What does your therapist do when you have a flashback in a session? What should you do to cope in between tough sessions?
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"We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces."
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