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#1
Jul 20, 2015, 07:13 PM
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I've been flashbacking hard, or I always have, but lately, it's just coming at me now that I can put a word to it. It's not traumatic ones, but more of past experiences and people. It's like I don't know these people and places, but yet....familiar?
They aren't in video format, but snapshots of a distant past. Faces I can't put a finger on. Of course there are them OMG! moments that I just want to die over. I'll sit and stare at the ceiling and flash flash flash. Even when driving they happen so much that I'm a distracted driver if not a tranced driver, it scares me. Even in the middle of the night at 2-3 am, if we aren't chatting, other memories are oppressing me so much it keeps me awake. I usually get up for an hour and focus on tv till I feel tired again. I just wish it would just stop because it doesn't make any logical sense, for as soon as they flash in, they flash out. Only ones that leave a deep impression sticks, like I see one of a long curly dark haired women laughing in a concert t-shirt, about mid 20's...it feels familiar...but I just can't time and place it. Makes me wonder if it's even real, but it feels real. It wears me out. No wonder I drink a lot. :/ |
 Anonymous32750, Anonymous327501
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#2
Jul 20, 2015, 10:59 PM
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I hate being hit with a flashback. Knocks the wind out of me and leaves me confused and exhausted.
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| Anonymous48690
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#3
Jul 20, 2015, 11:32 PM
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i find myself having a lot of things in my head, images, etc. that are not really flashbacks or memories. i think maybe it's some kind of daydreaming or something. i am not sure if it's similar to what you are saying. i just have it happen a lot..a lot of random things, like you not necessarily bad, etc. i don't know if my head just gets bored?
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| Anonymous48690, Gr3tta
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Jul 21, 2015, 01:33 AM
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I had this all day yesterday
 Exhausting is the right word! By the end of the day I was a blubbering mess. Until I hit the vino, anyway 
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| Anonymous48690, Gr3tta
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#5
Jul 23, 2015, 06:29 PM
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I think one of our others had a relations with the curly haired girl. It's the only thing that makes sense, I think.
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| Anonymous327501, Gr3tta
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#6
Jul 25, 2015, 11:50 AM
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they have been getting worse for me too, lately. i know how you feel. it's horrible |
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#7
Jul 26, 2015, 07:18 PM
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I've noticed that once I notice the oddities and talk/journal/forum about it then it stops. Later on, it might reoccur but usually I found a better way to cope with it. I'm a huge fan of asking inside also to stop and explaining why it is becoming an nuisance....
I don't have a lot of traumatic ones either, but just like for example... I'm in my house 4 years ago as if it was today just walking around searchinf every corner.... I'm at a mall from 4 months ago... I'm at a counselor's office..... Just a lot of flashbacks from the past...Like someone drops them in my mind....Its not like oh I'm thinking about my these place, then boom I'm there in my memory... Its like what is this for!!! Screaming... Flashback can be very bothersome.... I heard EMDR is good, but I was thinking it was for folks that have a lot of traumatic flashbacks... I might check into it again, although I can't spend a lot of money on expensive therapy at this time in my life. |
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#8
Jul 28, 2015, 04:22 AM
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*sighs* i wish i had never stopped my journal, but it was so hard to remain positive and most of the time it didn't do me any good, so... tricky one i miss talking to my journal like it was my only friend but can't bring myself to start it up again |
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Jul 28, 2015, 07:14 AM
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Also, nobody cares here. My pdoc comes across as why am I bothering her with all this? All she wants is to dish out meds and not be bothered. Our life is pretty basic and boring, the workers go to work, and the others do home life. What is there to write about? The others don't care about any journal, just me, or used too. |
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Jul 28, 2015, 09:20 AM
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I would really like to journal. I have tried, but i find myself lying as much in my journal as i do to other people. I think I'm scared to put things in writing.
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| Anonymous48690
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Jul 28, 2015, 12:26 PM
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Ive tried journalling, but Im just dire at it. When I read what I write I get so embarrassed, can't relate to it, and just rip it up. If I try and keep a diary and I don't rip it up, I forget all about it within a week! Ive never got past page 6 of a diary! The one thing I have started doing is writing my dreams down. The dreams are so crazy vivid these days - and so blatant they really don't leave much to interpretation! I haven't done anything with the dream diary - not shown it to my T or anything. But its the one journal Ive ever managed to keep up with.
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| Gr3tta
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#12
Jul 28, 2015, 02:55 PM
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Maybe this would make good practice to get real??? The bold truth can be so scary, but when one learns to embrace it, it can be the strongest ally on your side.
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| Gr3tta
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#13
Jul 31, 2015, 05:31 PM
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Odd thing is, the flash backs, I'm so detached from them. Like I'm seeing a clip of an event, but have no emotional ties to it, like a silent film, and yet recognize all the actors in it. I also see myself in 3rd person.
Does this makes sense? |
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