Hi Kiya,

I am sorry you have such a severe reactions to the sound of gunfire. One of my triggers are guns, not so much the sound but the image which sets my PTSD into motion.

I was held hostage by my father as a child after he committed a horrid crime, I had wiped it from my mind until I was robbed at gunpoint at a store when I was 20. The nightmares began afterwards, and when I told my mother about the image I was having in my dreams, and how I was confused as why I had a gun in my face with the image of a cop behind it instead of the guy who robbed me, she told me about what had happened when I was 6, and suddenly images and memories flooded and I ended up in the hospital in shock.

But it took the robbery to set off the long buried memory of the cops trying to get my father to release me as he held a gun to my head.

Just thought I would offer support in understanding that the body remembers, it truly does.

Safe journey Kiya...you will be in my thoughts..

Eva