[Trace14]

What has helped you with flashbacks?

[SoupDragon]

I don't have any strong visual flashbacks, but have emotional ones sometimes. Nothing helps at the moment as I fail to spot them at the time. But working on trying to recognise them as memories and not my reality now.

[Trace14]

Originally Posted by SoupDragon

I don't have any strong visual flashbacks, but have emotional ones sometimes. Nothing helps at the moment as I fail to spot them at the time. But working on trying to recognise them as memories and not my reality now.

Oooooo that's profound Good job and good idea. I know this is not an easy task but certainly something for us to work on and towards.

[kenziemae312]

I just kind of "fog out" as they replay...sometimes it's almost like a movie and I let it "play" as I try to suppress the emotions that are triggered. I just try to breathe through it and not fall apart. Eventually, my chest loosens up, and the fog starts to clear. I don't know if this is a healthy way to deal w/them but it helps me.

[Trace14]

Originally Posted by kenziemae312

I just kind of "fog out" as they replay...sometimes it's almost like a movie and I let it "play" as I try to suppress the emotions that are triggered. I just try to breathe through it and not fall apart. Eventually, my chest loosens up, and the fog starts to clear. I don't know if this is a healthy way to deal w/them but it helps me.

I agree with letting the flashback play out, takes too much energy to try to stop it. Is it the healthy way to deal with it? I don't know. When having a flashback do you try get to a quiet , safe place, to be with the flashback?

[Fuzzybear]

Originally Posted by SoupDragon

I don't have any strong visual flashbacks, but have emotional ones sometimes. Nothing helps at the moment as I fail to spot them at the time. But working on trying to recognise them as memories and not my reality now.

Thanks.. I need help with this

Originally Posted by Trace14

What has helped you with flashbacks?

EMDR stopped them for me.

[happysobercrafter]

Originally Posted by JoBo

EMDR stopped them for me.

What is EMDR like? I have read that it can help flashbacks and that mindfulness helps with reducing CPTSD symptoms. I would love to hear about your experience with EMDR as long as that is ok with you. How often did you so got sessions and what were they like?

Thank you!

[happysobercrafter]

I wish I could get mine to stop. If I am watching tv or a movie or reading or crafting, they stop briefly but they ALWAYS break back through. I hate it.

[Trace14]

Originally Posted by HappyCrafter

What is EMDR like? I have read that it can help flashbacks and that mindfulness helps with reducing CPTSD symptoms. I would love to hear about your experience with EMDR as long as that is ok with you. How often did you so got sessions and what were they like?

Thank you!

EMDR is like most treatments, it works for some and some it doesn't but there have been a lot of positive outcomes with it. Basically you meet with a therapist and develop a therapeutic relationship, then you work on certain memories by watching a hand, or item , go back and forth stimulating the right and left sides of the brain. Check it out on Google and I'm sure they will have better info on it. It would be worth a try I think.

[whisperingpain]

Originally Posted by Trace14

What has helped you with flashbacks?

I keep a baseball around most of the time and in my car to bring me back to a place of peace and comfort when they happen