Differences Between Emotional Flashbacks

[Gs172003]

Memory loss is a deeper dissociation. I dissociated twice where I don't remember how I got f...

Yes but not being intimate with my husband and staying away from trains all the time when I work outside just doesn't seem feasible. I guess I've learned from here I can't keep avoiding

 

[Gs172003]

I can avoid the rest of the triggers I'm aware of. And it's good to know I'm not a freak. I like you all.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Emotional flashbacks, in my understanding, is emotionally feeling like you are there.

So, for example, having sex with your husband but feeling like you are being raped when you arent.

Dissociation is going away mentally.

The two are very different.

And you aren't a freak! :hug:

 

[Gs172003]

Emotional flashbacks, in my understanding, is emotionally feeling like you are there.

So, fo...

I've done both. It pisses me off when he talks to me and pulls me out cause that's when the flashbacks happen. He doesn't understand that. I don't know how to stop it. Sooo...I haven't been with him like that in....I don't know now.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

He doesn't understand that.

Education?

There's several great books for supporters to learn the challenges of PTSD and how to handle it or deal with it better and support you better.

 

[EveHarrington]

For me they can overlap.

Usually they are separate.

I know when it's an emotional flashback as my reaction is over the top to the current situation.

Dissociation is like being separated from the world. Twilight zone like.

:hug:

(This stuff stinks!)

 

[Gs172003]

Education?

There's several great books for supporters to learn the challenges of PTSD and ho...

He has one. I got it for him after all that. Thank you

 

[Gs172003]

Talking about the memory thing...can you dissociate an entire marriage? Like I remember very. Very little of my second marriage that has anything to do with the actual marriage. Where I lived, sorta.my job, in detail, but the relationship aspects i cant remember. But I KNOW he abused me. What the heck

 

[Gs172003]

For me they can overlap.

Usually they are separate.

I know when it's an emotional flashback a...

That makes sense. That sounds like what I described my coworker seeing. I have no idea why though. Well, I have theories but that's it

 

[EveHarrington]

I think that if we're in constant fight/flight mode, our brain isn't so concerned with forming memories. All of the energy is spent on staying alert and not so much on storing info. That's my guess anyway. I mean I have an awesome memory, unless I'm triggered or in fight/flight mode.

 

[Gs172003]

I think that if we're in constant fight/flight mode, our brain isn't so concerned with forming me...

Could be.

 

[orangeweezel]

@Zoogal I get the same feeling with my dissociation. It's so confusing and hard to explain that it makes me feel crazy. You're certainly not alone. One thought about emotional flashbacks I've noticed is the same way I used to feel in my fight/flight/freeze experiences. Often I'll feel frozen, my brain seems to be in slow motion, my emotions and body feel kind of numb, and it's a flashback to childhood trauma that I don't see visually, but feel like I'm reexperiencing. I have some dissociation that feels like I know what triggers it, and other times of what people called brain fog where I just feel very mentally sluggish. It is all very confusing.