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Originally Posted by SaharaSon
Trace, as soon as I talked about getting better with handling trauma, I got sucker punched by reality. Yesterday I had one of the worst triggered flashbacks ever. I can tell you the worst ones are the ones that you don't see coming at you. I was just chillin watching the movie "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman and unexpectedly a person (pedestrian) gets hit by a car. The visuals and audio were very realistic and close to what happened to me. Too realistic for me. It brought me lock stock and barrel back to being run down again. It was a full body (if not out of body) experience. My whole body shook violently as if I has being hit again. I had nausea and almost passed out. I'm sure my heart skipped some beats. I had to close my eyes for awhile to regain my composure. It was quite intense.:  Well I guess its back to the drawing board.  Shalom.
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SaharaSon, when you experience this you have to sit and say to yourself, YES, that happened to me, I remember but I am SAFE NOW, I am OK. When you do that your flashback will reduce in intensity and your conscious mind is allowing your brain to file that experience and process it rather than coming up with this question of "is this happening now"? Trauma in the brain doesn't process like other experiences so we have to help it along once we understand that the trauma is over and we are actually safe and survived.