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Originally Posted by satsuma
I have flashbacks and I do talk about them in therapy.
I think that it's worth talking about because:
- the experience of having a flashback can be distressing ime and so I find it helpful to talk about it with T
- the emotions that go with the flashback are certainly real.
I do get what you're saying about memories and the uncertainty that goes with them. I don't think that talking about flashbacks would make them more or less true, or in my experience it wouldn't pursuade you of something as a result of speaking about it.
I have heard of this thing about "false memories" but I'm sure that nowadays Ts would be aware of these things and would know how to take care not to "pursuade" a client about a particular memory or story.
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I have talked about some of them before as well (actually I wrote a journal for some weeks and my T read everything, plus we discussed some of them in addition). I think the emotions that go with it are probably the thing that I'd like to discuss most, I haven't even thought about that!
I don't believe that my T would try to tell me anything is true or false, I just sometimes struggle to see what the benefit of talking about certain things would be (which I believe I found now, since I'd really like to talk about my emotions going with it).