[Prada]

First off, i'm sorry im all take take take, with no responses to other people's posts.. but i'm not one with a way of words, im a hugger...

The past few nights I have been having a rush of memories and emotion. It almost feels like I am back when I was about 17, feeling like I was living back then again with the smells and sounds. So many thoughts and feelings, it was like a slide-show of different points in my life from about 16 to 18.. I don't know how to describe the feelings, but its like every emotion I have ever felt all wrapped in one.

I know I shouldn't do it, but after it happened I took the last dose of my Neurontin that I stopped taking last year. I don't know whether it was that, me venting to a friend through text messages, or me telling my thoughts to go away(out loud).. about the time I did that I got really relaxed.

Anyways, Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this or know how to make it stop? With the days feeling like dreams, it feels too real and overwhelming.

first.... huggers are so important...

And yes, I have had that sensation... many times in life.. for me something in my current life triggers that "flood" as I call of it of past feelings, sensations... and "flood" is the operative word.. cause it just takes over... and feel, feel..is what happens to me...

I try when this happens to do "grounding" techniques.. I try to recognize that it is a "flood" and that it won't last forever.. that it to will pass.. and then I try very hard to get busy with something in my life that is "routine" for me...
That eventually.. pulls me out of the past.. and puts me in the current.. in the here and now.. and the "flood" recedes..

Even though it feels like it will last forever.. it won't.. that perhaps will help to know...

[stefano]

Never happened as a flood liek you say. But everytime I walk around my old primary school, memories of frustration and isolation overwhelm me. Youth is supposed to be a merry time... not always.
Sorry I can't help...