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flashbacks -- descriptions?

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Hi. I have PTSD and suffer from what I call "episodes" where everything starts to "morph" -- sounds change, and faces change, and I start to feel like I'm in a tunnel and that I'm really physically ill. Moreover I feel I've experienced this exact moment before. It's the worst deja vu you can imagine! I know they are flashbacks to childhood abuse, and I know there are other posts about this in this group. I too am perplexed at why I have them and when. I recently had a really bad one and completely dissociated. When this happens (rarely now) I lose all sense of where i am and what is happening and when I finally come back to consciousness, I can't remember ANYTHING about what I said or did during the fugue state. It's so scary.

Anyway, besides from sharing there is another reason I am posting this. I am a writer and I am interested in other people's experiences with flashbacks or dissociation. If you are willing to share with me, I promise i won't publish anything with anybody's real or fictional names, and, moreover, I won't publish anything without showing it to you first.

Thanks!

T
deleted_user
deleted_user
I suffer from same kind of flashbacks... and also when I am in panic mood as I call it...I remember anything in that time frame. This also happens when I get really angry... Yes, it is scary. Scary enough sometimes to cause another panic attack.
TwilightStar
TwilightStar
I get these unique forms of flashbacks. Usually triggered by a visual. I am a very visual person, and things being aligned the same way, having the same symmetry, same kind of lighting or organization will trigger me. Although they are triggered by a visual my vision doesnt change. If anything I become focused on what is triggering me and the rest becomes a blur - and in my mind like an old movie I can see it flash into what I had experienced before.

Since I have amnesia to the main cause of my PTSD, my flashbacks are more environmental and emotional.

Suddenly I will feel like I am in a different place, a scary place, like I was before. To the point where I can feel raised wounds on my body, and sense a presence coming from down the hall. These usually either trigger panick attacks or severe dissociation.
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