Hi Yachats,
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Originally Posted by Yachats
...Sometimes I'll feel like I'm living in a moment when he did the things he threatend to do, but never really happened. Why do I get these "flashbacks" of things that never really happened? Is that normal?
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It's true that it is actually difficult to pin down what 'normal' really means, but in the broad, general sense, I do think that given what happened to you, your brain responded in what I think to be a straightforward way. A normal way, yes.
So, I can only speculate but it seems possible that when he threatened to sexually abuse you [which is obviously terrible] those threats, those words, were interpreted correctly by you, and so naturally your mind was able to picture what it might be like to be abused and traumatized, in such a way - and of course it would be horrible, humiliating. Flashbacks happen and with you, they're happening with the images of his threats attached. As I say, I'm speculating.
But threats and verbal abuses are traumas that can stick in the mind just like physical abuses.