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@The Albatross No, I have had similar experiences to you. I have terrifying flashbacks that make me feel like I am going absolutely crazy because I can't believe something so terrifying has happened to me. I am in therapy now... I suggest you talk to a therapist and start working through some of...
Have you ever felt death
Trickling down the inside of your leg
As a hand placed so fervently in your groin
Flashback
Where did my legs go?
Spiritual paralysis.
I am paralyzed
A purgatory between the breathing and the dead
I can move from one side to another
But in water my...
I had memories as a young 7 year old of fantasizing about being a sex slave. I think it was because of my abuse. Now when I first started having sex... I have submissive fantasies again and like the idea of a man degrading and abusing me. Like I want to be a perfect housewife that really turns...
@EveHarrington After my last trigger, I got what I would consider to be violent and completely emotional. I ended up in the hospital. It was absolutely terrible. Afterwards, I tried breaking up with my boyfriend because I couldn't handle the stress. Looking back on it... It is sad because we've...
See... I always had the memory of the man coming into the closet but I completely repressed the other stuff. Everything... All of the abuse. I remember when I had the flashback... I was like woah, I haven't remembered this in a really, really long time.
I have heard of the notion of false memories. Are false memories real?
I always thought I might have been sexually abused as a child after I developed PTSD for two sexual assaults that happened at ages 18 and 19. When I developed PTSD, I started doing EMDR. One day during a flashback, I got an...
@Ragdoll Circus Thank you! That meant so much. I feel bad because everyone around me is exhausted by my trauma. Thank you for your help. It meant so much.
What is IMHO? I see... I want to stop being so easily distressed but I feel like sexual abuse is all I can think about since my nightmares and body memories. I feel like I am going crazy.
I have been having PTSD symptoms ever since my sexual assault when I was in College. However, I have been in ample amounts of therapy and the PTSD hasn't gotten better. In fact, the more therapy I go to the worse the PTSD gets. My dad was an alcoholic and at times physically abusive.
I have...
I keep having dreams of the guys who attacked me in high school.
I have dreams where I am telling them what they did to me and they don't believe me. I have dreams where they're tormenting me and bullying me. And I have dreams where I am drunk, helplesss and sick.
They always wanted to see...