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Old Feb 20, 2018, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by direkat View Post
That if you're being triggered, you will be very obviously being triggered. That if you're not thrashing about/yelling you clearly aren't having an episode.

I hardly ever have a fight response, my response is always to freeze and shut down so everyone always just thinks I'm not paying attention and if I say I had a trigger and was having a PTSD flashback they look at me like they don't believe me.
I get exactly the same. I just freeze and stop responding, withdrawing completely and making myself invisible. People interpret it as being weird, sulking, offended... When in reality I'm scared and every single one of my muscles is tight in defense and not knowing what to say or do.

It's a terrible state which almost no one understands
Thanks for this!
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