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Nov 22, 2017, 12:47 AM
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I've been having flashbacks to possible/likely childhood abuse. Sometimes it's only words, sometimes only an emotion. Today it was an image. There were body sensations too, but I'm just gonna focus on the image here. (I am seeing a T who has generally confirmed what is going on and has brought up "trauma", but prior to this I had complete amnesia of everything.)
In the image/memory something is happening to a young girl (who I think is/was me as a child). I am confused though, b/c the image/memory is from the perspective of an outside observer... Right now as an adult I only dissociate in mild ways, never feeling completely "out of body." So my question is mostly to those who are more aware of having felt completely outside their own bodies... do you ever have flashbacks where you are watching a scene and you can see the entire scene, including all of your own body, like even the top of your own head (which is technically impossible... no one can actually see their own head without looking in a mirror...). I also posted this on the dissociation thread; hopefully that's ok. |
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Nov 22, 2017, 01:21 AM
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I have had those kinds of flash backs n I have had dissociation at times but I do not relate the flashbacks to the dissociation - rather I think the image of me I am seeing is the image my brain remembers as being me at that age n since I am no longer there I AM an observer - not a participant. Much like when you go back in your memories with your therapist into a traumatic memory .. the therapist may remind you that you are no longer at that place but rather just observing the memory if he or she notices you becoming too aggitated.
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Nov 22, 2017, 06:29 AM
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Yes, that's what half of mine are like. Half the time I am looking on at myself in the traumatic situation. It's in colour too and it's like a slow motion thing.
Other times I'm completely in the scene, it's in my face up close. Then again other times are only thought images that annoyingly appear unexpectedly. I'm not really sure what disassociation is, have to research.
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