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I am currently in therapy. My problem is that anytime I talk about the abuse with my therapist I have a flashback, well not ANYtime, but a lot of the time. I feel like this is holding me back from making any real progress. All I do is try to make it day to day. I'm trying to do some self...

@Eliza It's so hard to be so gravely disabled and for it to be invisible. People just don't understand what goes on under the surface. You were very brave.

I know this isn't really what you were looking for, but I had a similar experience when I tried to commit suicide at 16. Everyone was cruel to me.

@Eliza You know, I suggest this kind of thing to my kid when he's having a hard time but I rarely think of it for myself.

@ladee Thank you, I do accept.

@Bearlinda I'm currently reading it. Trying to understand more about my PTSD. I'm trying to sort out what is caused by PTSD and what is caused by other things. I haven't had unexplained pain like you have, just body memory things. If I read this book, maybe I'll realize that something I've...

@Bearlinda Thanks for the response. It's helpful.

@mumstheword Thank you :-) @Bearlinda Thank you.

I am writing this because now that I am on new meds, I actually have feelings and need to process it. My best friend and a man I considered to be my brother, whom I had known since my freshman year of highschool committed suicide last summer. He was a medic in the Army and had PTSD. I am not...

when you feel like your body isn't yours, like it's mainly a transportation device for your head, but doesn't belong to you?

Am I calling this the right thing? I have these body flashbacks that I call "body stuff" where I feel the abuse happening, but I don't see it or experience it any other way. Is that what a body memory is? I also have full on re-experiencing flashbacks where I believe I am being hurt. I don't...

@Fionas74 May I ask what kind of pain you had in your body? I have intense flashbacks and body memories, but I believe there's more to it than that, right?

@Muttly I think your brother was probably taking out his aggression on you because you were the safest person to do it with. He was abused by your father as well, so there was most likely a lot of anger built up inside of him. There is this kid at my son's school who is having problems and...

@Bananie, Good to know!

@Hopeforlife Wikipedia I suppose if you go by that definition it could be abreaction. There are other definitions that contradict that, though...hard to say, but google is your friend.

Has anyone read, "The Body Keeps the Score"? It's a little out of date but still very interesting. Just curious if anyone has any opinions.

I'm sorry you had that experience. I have had overwhelming pain in flashbacks and with body memories, so I'm thinking it could be either. Sometimes flashbacks effect just one sense at a time.

I hope you find some support here. I just recently joined and have learned a lot. It's nice to know you're not the only one!

I can't sleep (again) because I'm scared that someone will come into my bedroom and hurt me if I do sleep. As some of you know, I'm really on edge with a medication change and not sleeping will really hurt me the next day even if my meds are stable. I'm so worried about what will happen today...

Okay, so I saw the doctor. She is prescribing more seroquel at night to help with flashbacks, which will hopefully help during the day as well, but if I have body memories she is allowing me to take 25 or 50 mg of seroquel during the day to stop that. She also restarted my adderall xr and...

I'm on disability for PTSD, and I have the same problem getting out of bed to go to therapy or the doctor. Today I just want to lay in bed. Fighting this thing is just too much sometimes.

Yes, that helps. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Good to know I'm not alone.

I am curious, I dissociate to the point where I think I'm a child again, like a 5 year old, and I don't remember anything other than what happened when I was a child. I don't have another name and I don't have episodes where I have a separate life, it just happens after flashbacks. Anyone else...

So, my doctor started me on Lyrica, seroquel, and remeron last week. This week I can't stop having flashbacks and have the most severe depression I've ever had. I'm wondering what I should say to her tomorrow. Any suggestions?

"You can't teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better." - L.R. Knost "Gentleness does not mean that you don't guide me. It means that your guidance doesn't hurt me." - L.R. Knost