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@NovemberStar can you get the potassium chloride pills and sedatives out of your possession? If you're having suicidal thoughts, it's probably best to not also have opportunity at your fingertips.

Same here. I'm noticing that this is manifesting in my recent weight loss. I have trouble eating because of the way my PTSD affects me with vomiting, and am underweight right now as a result. I have thoughts of watching myself wither away into nothing and die. I'm not anorexic, at least not...

^Sounds just like me. Yesterday, I started thinking deeply about the things that happened and how I felt when they happened and I threw up. I have actively suppressed all the memories for years, but eventually they come out uncontrollably in flashbacks...The power of our subconscious mind/body...

But you're "brave enough" to start therapy... Don't be so hard on yourself :-)

That's how I felt a few weeks ago. Everyone works on a different timeframe, but with the right T and time....anything is possible. (Wow, there's the optimist in me coming back out - I haven't seen that part of me in months!)

It happened. Usually I only allow 2 select people in my life, who I am very close to, to see me experience a flashback, but my therapist saw it for the first time today. I mainly get emotional flashbacks with intense crying, muscle tension, sweating, nausea/vomiting, and complete lack of ability...

@Leah123 - Do you think some gentle praise and encouragement towards your husband could keep him going down this path of engaging in therapy? If he takes a hint that you're upset - after he took his first baby step towards repairing the damage - I wonder if it would discourage him further? You...

Sounds a lot like the emotional flashbacks I get :-/ Can you remember any specific emotions you felt while crying?

Wow, interesting... That happens to me most of the time too. I also use it to remember things, to help me focus on what people are saying, or structure my thoughts. I had never thought of this as a form of dissociation before, although I just recently learned what dissociation is... I'm very...

I am willing to bet that nearly everyone on this forum and anyone diagnosed with PTSD has identified with this feeling at some point (I certainly have). Welcome :-)

Thanks for sharing @Sweet Girl 8 months of that constant state of mind sounds sounds painful. I'm still wrapping my mind around the fact that much of the negative, uncontrollable emotion I've experienced over the course of the last 10 years have been emotional flashbacks. I just learned the...

Prayers for your family.

Could you offer him an ultimatum that he must start therapy to deal with his anger problems?

Thanks @DMerish for reminding me. Pete Walker has some good articles. I'm working to getting to a point where I can try this. The goal is to stabilize my mood a bit via SSRIs then I think I can be a bit more effective....

I'm sorry you had such a horrific episode. It sounds like it was quite scary. Hang in there :-) Maybe you'll "stumble upon" a convenient vacation destination or visit a friend so you don't have to see her and have a good excuse ;-).

@Solara. You read me like an open book. Yes, I had 3 parental figures growing up, all of whom controlled me in their own unique ways: one was emotional abuse and psychological manipulation, the second was physical violence and emotional abandonment, and the third (still is) through...

It is extremely frustrating @rightkindofme. As I am working through therapy and reading a lot online and in these forums, I am starting to realize the extent to which this has affected my relationships and my own mental health. Feeling like you are being controlled all the time leads to...

Wow!

@SuperAnxietyGirl glad to hear it. If you like reading about God and PTSD, you may find this blog as therapeutic as I have: I can't post the URL, but do a Google search for "healingfromcomplextraumaandptsd wordpress" and you'll find a blog written by someone who is leaning on God through her...

I suppose I am mostly posting this just to vent... Unfortunately my closest friends are often my biggest triggers. I try to help a friend through her problem, and - BAM - I feel inadequate and spiral into an emotional flashback. My loving boyfriend doesn't hug me "long enough" and - WOAH - I...

@Solara - I have the opposite problem! Usually I like to talk to God, but in a flashback I feel so separated from God, and from everything that is comforting in my life.

Barberian and Zaniara: What do you mean by "grounding" yourself?

I hadn't thought of it that way before. Maybe those words have some "magic" in them.

Has anybody identified techniques that effectively stop a flashback in its tracks? I am plagued by emotional flashbacks, where I suddenly feel afraid, overwhelmed, extremely angry, tense, and I experience a very intense emotional pain. My whole body hurts with intense pain, and I often vomit...

Hi. I am a 26 year old graduate student and was recently diagnosed with PTSD. I primarily suffer from "emotional flashbacks," as my therapist tells me. All sorts of events, conversations, thoughts, songs, sounds, etc, in my life trigger me to go into a deep, very dark psychological experience...