Are These Flashbacks?

[sonicwhite]

Ok so I go about my day. And then I remember what it felt like going thru the psychosis and how helpless I was in how to talk to my ex. Then I get this thought I am stable so why not call her not remembering that it happened ten yrs ago. Then I snap out of it. So would that be considered a flashback?

 

[sonicwhite]

They are not has scary but more hopelessness

 

[sonicwhite]

Anyone?

 

[seedling]

Not sure what that is but I can understand the feeling of it all being so present to you NOW, even though it was long ago.

 

[sonicwhite]

Ya I think that is what it is. Can you have nightmares without flashbacks?

 

[joeylittle]

So would that be considered a flashback?

I don't think so, because you are maintaining awareness in the present. The thought 'I'm stable now' is happening in the now. A flashback (in my mind) is 100% in the then.

 

[BlueDream]

I think, to me flashbacks are about the emotional feelings I have within. To me, they are not pictures or thoughts of the past, they are just the same feelings I have had in the past.

If you feel the need to contact your ex, be cautious. I think you may be vulnerable, and she may not say anything positive.

That's just my two cents....

Hope you find some Prace!!

 

[meltot]

Ya I think that is what it is. Can you have nightmares without flashbacks?

Yes. I don't experience flashbacks, just nightmares. If you mean having visual component to the dream (as opposed to just fear), yes, also. I have visual dreams and just awful, adrenaline-y doom feelings upon waking (not related to sleep paralysis).

 

[InvisibleSun]

This sounds a lot like an emotional flashback to me. Kinda like your being flooded with those same traumatic emotions that you felt before, which then tricks the mind into thinking it's back in that moment, as opposed to a regular flashback, which entails you literally reliving that moment. Where you have been completely removed from reality..like being on a bad acid trip. What you're describing sounds like more of an emotional hijacking.

You can definitely have nightmares without flashbacks, though. I have had a relatively small number of flashbacks in comparison to my number of nightmares.

 

[katybug]

It sounds like maybe intrusive thoughts?

 

[Gadgie]

Flashbacks can hit at any time, well they do with me. It can be a smell a sound or a visual image, that sends you right back in time, to a horrible event that you thought you had forgotten.

Some times I drift into a day dream, when a flash back happens, and I drift away and seem to lose contact with what I was doing or the person I was talking to at the time.