I have been working on getting better but find myself often just not wanting to go there. To open that box of memories and look it over once more. My T wants me to pick a certain memory and try to picture it as if on a TV screen in my mind and step into the picture and save the "little girl", (me), from the abuse. I have been trying this exercise but find it hard to put in on a TV screen. I can picture it in my mind happening but staying focused is really hard.
My T talks about creating a safe place to go when I am scared, but this also is confusing in trying to create such a place in my mind.
I sense the possibility of a old woman and a young child or two, but this is still in the begining stage of understand the puzzle.
I also wanted to ask if you can explain the basic knowledge of what or how flashbacks happen. I just wrote about something that happened to me, that I think was a flashback, though it was my first and it was very scary to me. You can read it over in Clyde's corner, drather then me retyping it over here.
The trying to do exercises for T, and wondering why I could not daydream anymore, then trying to remember my imaginary horse that I had as a child seemed to trigger this "flashback".
Any comments would be helpful to me. 1Girl