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Opppss sorry! I don’t have a lot of tech savvy

Hi talon, I suspect that I have “DID” it would explain a lot. Any advice? Like how do I find out their names, etc?

Yes sort of. What I think you are experiencing is “alters” aka switching from personality to personality based upon the circumstance . I notice that when I switch I feel “an electric shock” go through my body. For example, I had a surgery and was in incredible pain; and noticed that I felt...

Yes I’ve been there. The first thing I did was change the things I could. Hated my job so I got another. Felt uncomfortable about my neighbor so I avoided her. Do what you can do! Focus on what is realistic given your assets. I am a live-in caregiver and I was stuck without a car with a demented...

I’ve had all of this happen to me and so much more. And like you said it all seemed to happen involuntarily. I’ve had many different stages of healing and it’s been amazing! when I was a child I could t cry about the bad things done to me ONLy the bad things done to other children in my...

I’ve heard about “physical somatics” meaning that people’s bodies actually reenact the original trauma INVOLUNTARILY. There was a thread hear entitled flashbacks where a person mentioned it. It seems like it is one of the last stages of flashbacks where the trauma is actually erased leaving only...

HealingMama, you need to do these actions not him! Manipulative people won’t change they can’t. You have got to take the steps and do it. 2018 I started having “emotional flashbacks” and I started seeing my friends as they are instead of what I thought they were. I also asked them to change: as...

I more or less take my time with things. I don’t push becaue “pushing leads to breaking”...that’s me...please be careful

Wait! why would I want to stop them?

Well this is what I have been tryin It will. If you want it to. I was very stuck in half flashbacks and when I tossed out all of the people who brought me down and made me unhappy things started to “unfreeze”. I read about 10 books written by survivors and all of them said their mom was...

According to what I’ve read an intrusive thought is an “unwanted thought that you can’t get out of your head”. What do you mean, “a problem to be addressed?” My thoughts (for example) fly into my head about a particular ex-bf I had 34 years ago along with the humiliation and shame associated...

I disagree! This isn’t “obsession” it is an “intrusive thought” meaning it is a thought in my head trying to come up! In my experience these types of intrusive thoughts are memories trying to emerge. I will give you an example. 1 year ago I kept saying “I know my Gm was involved! I know it!”...

If there is no answer that’s fine. But every clue beings light to another piece of the puzzle. I appreciate your time, thank you. During my journey I have found that “questions” arise typically it is because an answer to my question is growing near. Thank u all so much!!

I wish I. Plus explain how I felt when I would wake up that might help. Like I was in a daze or something. I would get into the shower and seconds later 30 minutes had gone by...I felt like I wasn’t quite in “the reality of the now”. I used to tell my fiends that reality is like a bookcase and I...

I feel better knowing “how” he did it. I had a “flashback” where when I wake up my head is hurting so I knew he knocked me on the head! My junior year of high school I would wake up everyday and feel like I was in a daze of some sort. I didn’t drink or do drugs so it wasn’t me. I again got this...

I am trying to figure out what “legal, over the counter” drug my gf used to put me out? Any suggestions? He was a very handy man who had a “work bench”?

Is like to read about this any books that you recommend?

Yup! The same thing happens to me with my best female friend and this has been happening a lot!! I think that as you heal your perception changes suddenly I am not everyone’s door mat!! Keep doing your healing and the answer will become clearer. You are a normal person!! Everyone is...

Omg! What you said really hits what I am going through right now! Yes having c-ptsd makes life’s journey hellish. For myself it is being naive to other people’s motives!! Wow yes “focus on your needs. He focuses on his. And by taking care of yourself and him taking care of himself you can come...

I don’t think you are strange! So don’t think that my guess is that what was happening during the trauma “you couldn’t talk” so that is what you were experiencing!!

Really? So sorry!! When I first started having fbs nearly 30 years ago I noticed that the odd feeling I felt when I would get into the shower had diminished. Remeber that song “I always feel that somebodies watching me”! It was gone within 5-7 years. More recently I’ve noticed an ebbing in my...

Hi Anthony! Great site thank u!! I have a diary and I’ve started a handful of threads. Do I have to do anything? FYI my computer knowledge is very minimal!!

I have been having intense “emotional flashbacks” for about 2 years now. And I honestly feel better. I can set boundaries now whereas before boundaries were a mystery to me! I wanted to ask everyone: what good things have come out of having flashbacks??

I totally agree!! I was so numb to all experiences traumatic and not that it has been refreshing to “feel” the anger, physical pain, humiliation, and shame Because finally these “repressed traumatic memories” are being processed and therefore “resolved”.

Wow you are a poet you made reading about covid like reading a novel!!! The one thing that I tally agree with you about is the cough!! Endless hours of coughing w/o anything coming up!