[Lil Ant Lady]

morning guys im manic today - woke up and been flying round the house. by half past 8 id already got the kids ready for school and cleaned my kitchen from top to bottom. anyway, reason i am posting today is i have a prob, well its a prob ive had for years now, since having this illness. and its quite embarrassing. it happens when im usually having sex but can happen any time too... i have flashbacks. and these flashbacks can be of anything, like my mum talking to me about a conversation i had when i was six. or a visual of driving past a shop that used to be in town years ago. its almost like daydreaming but random fast flashing snippets of past info that come in and go straight out,,, usually things that happened years ago... as far back as to about the age of 6. sometimes can be recent but not typically. it really is starting to have a profound effect on me now as i cant climax due to these (hallucinations maybe, i dunno?) I havent told my psych cos its embarrassing :-(

[Victoria'smom]

If you have a therapist I'd talk to them about it to find out whether you should mention it to your pdoc. I know some anti-depressants can do that.

[faerie_moon_x]

I used to have terrible flashbacks. I was horribly bullied as a kid. Horribly. Anyway, for years and years I had flashbacks on it. I never talked about it with people and I should have. I know it's embarrassing but that's the point of therapy is to get the sludge out so that you can have a more meaningful and happy existance.

I went through some pretty big trauma a few years ago, which stopped the flashbacks on that... this time, though I've talked about my trauma and that helped me.

[BlueInanna]

Hi Lil Ant, Sorry you're having that prob. Please don't be too embarrassed to tell your pdoc, she/he might have good advice. I had something I was embarrassed about telling my pdoc, dreading it (promiscuity), but when I told her she wasn't at all surprised or judging, she was more like compassionate. And then I was relieved and it helped me work through it.

Regarding flashbacks during... I used to have a similar problem - not the same, but I would get random images or thoughts in my head during sex and couldn't climax. I got over it though thank goodness. But talk to the T or pdoc, I'm sure they'll have advice.