This our norm...ever come too out of a daze finding yourself screaming and freaking at the top of your lungs over crap in a memory bubble that you cant believe that you did or didn’t do in a horror kind of way? Then it fades away like “did that really just happen?”

Several times a day...standing on a ladder tightening a screw....or driving down a road....or talking to someone....you just stop being present and overwhelmed by the reliving of the moment that an Other did. It sucks. Thought I’d share.

[TrailRunner14]

(((AC)))

Mine creep up on me and I just numb out, and the freak out happens internally. I piece it together after it happens.

I have had a flashback in my counselors office that did, pretty much, freak me out.

Please be safe!

I wish I had advise but I’m pretty much at its mercy.

Oh wait!

I remember my counselor telling me about something. Ya know with EMDR you follow a finger left and right or you hold these things in your hand that buzz left and then right. It has something to do with processing and integrating that memory or moment that you are flashing to.

I think I remember him telling me to “pat” my left leg and right leg, alternating. Ya know, like if you were sitting in a chair you could just tap the top of your leg above your knee back and forth.

I don’t know. That just came to me and thought I’d share it with you.

I could have it totally wrong, but I believe that’s what I remember.

It won’t stop the flashback from happening but it could help after the fact.

There maybe someone else who has more information about it.

Please post if you do.

Take care
Friend

Its like when a fb happens...it’s life quits existing and total absorbtion in it. The physical dissolves. The present doesnt exist...totally emursed. Finally when there is conflicting feelings...it crumbles and the present reality returns. Its scary when we are driving.

I cant see a point of grounding until it falls apart. Its like being hundred miles away...frozen...catatonic...horror...timeless...dazed...confused....stuck...

Just a thought...color...feeling...object...anything...de ja vue...odor...anything triggers it... sometimes end on end...

Lost for hours trying to resurface.

This what the Others try writing, but I guess I’m better at it. I should thnk them...I thank them ...for finding you all.

[TrailRunner14]

I went googling and found this.

It’s a lot of info but I did find the tapping grounding technique that I remembered.

Just wanted to share it with you.

http://www.hhri-gbv-manual.org/about/tools/grounding

[Amyjay]

Sometimes I get lost in flashbacks that seem to go on for hours too. They come in degrees for me... sometimes it can be just a visual or just a physical feeling or just a re-experiencing of one sense. But then other times they sweep me away and I am not me, instead little ones are just reliving it all over again on their own.
And then like you say, it switches or stops and I get up and dust myself off saying "Well that was weird" and then on carry on with my day in a shell-like way.
Sometimes I have them over and over in a day, and day after day.
Sometimes they come once a week or once a month.
I hope they ease for you Always changing. They can really zap you.

[ACrystalGem]

I had a flashback as I was getting into bed the other night. I usually have nightmares/flashbacks whilst asleep most nights, but this was something else. I think a newish alter was remembering what happens when we go to bed, but it was like being dragged backwards through a time tunnel - so realistic I was petrified. The only positive I can say is that at least it happened in a safe place. When I have flashbacks outside, it screws my head sideways.

I hope we can all get some peace as we process stuff.

it seems where ever I go their are new things to cause flashbacks

you wish, you hope to be safe

but the abuse continues, and new flashbacks happen... I struggled a lot with this yesterday

what I've never accepted is how 1 minit you're just fine and in the present, the next.... you're not

and hours just slip past

and hours turn in to nights

and possibly a few days

Possible trigger:

I wish I could get everyone who's ever caused me a flashback and just..... hurt them somehow.

Originally Posted by shattered sanity

Possible trigger:

I wish I could get everyone who's ever caused me a flashback and just..... hurt them somehow.

Have you ever encountered alters that abused you...and that causes its own flashbacks? Its like how do you fight yourself without hurting yourself? Or getting even with an alter that is still you in a way?

Life is a trigger...moment to moment...dp/dr....nothing no where is safe....deep sleep isnt even safe.

[Loose Screw x 2]

I had a therapist do the hand tapping on the legs thing years ago to calm me down. She saw even then, but, didn't tell me what it was. Still she was very understanding and compassionate. I wish she could be my therapist again.

About flashbacks, an image has been trying to come into my mind a lot lately that interferes with part of my recent sexual fantasies. I don't know if this is the unwanted OCD thoughts trying to torment me or if it's a past memory trying to break through but, I hate it and keep trying to push it away.

What AlwaysChanging2 said even deep sleep not being safe. "Aint it the truth!" Sometimes it seems like "out of the frying pan and into the fire".