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As far as it has been explained to me, it is a flashback once you are having sensory experience of the trauma, regardless of how many different senses that encompasses. If it feels like something from the past is happening in the present, that is a flashback, even if you can only feel the past...

Thanks for the replies, everyone. It's really helpful to hear that other people have different experiences... I don't know many others with PTSD, and so often you only hear about visual and auditory flashbacks. I didn't even know that tactile flashbacks existed until I started having them and...

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I always get really mixed feelings on this kind of thing, because obviously I wish that nobody else had to feel this.. but it's kind of a relief, too, to know that this isn't completely abnormal. Leah123, Don't mind you asking at all - I was a young child when...

I'm kind of interested in whether my flashbacks are pretty standard for people with PTSD, so looking to get other people's experiences. I have very few actual memories of the sexual abuse I experienced, and I'm not sure if the fact that I don't have many *memories* per se means that my...

Hi. Sorry, I might be doing this in the wrong order as I've already posted in other sections... but I figured an introduction might be good. Didn't notice that this part of the forum existed until now. I'm in my early 20s, and have had long-term struggles with mental health problems. I had my...

@Flyaway - thanks for the links - I really like the first one! Congrats on going for 7 years, that's really, really awesome. @bell - just wanted to say thanks for the response. I've had a couple of minor self harm incidents in the past 6 months that I'm not counting, because it's really...

Thanks for the replies. I really appreciate everyone being so supportive. This post is not about the original abuse but an experience I had a few years ago. This was the point where my PTSD started to escalate. ---- I am on a week long school trip to Greece. 18 so of legal drinking age...

For a long time I tried to get my body back from my abuser by hurting it - cutting it, burning it, starving it, taking pieces of it away, trying to desexualise myself and make myself unrecognisable from the person that I used to be. It didn't work. I hurt myself for 9 years and it didn't work...

Thanks for the reply, it's helpful. I've also heard that vaginal lubrication response in particular happens as a protective mechanism (decreases chance of injury during penetration) so makes evolutionary sense to happen even in non-consensual situations. That's one of the things I always remind...

Thanks - I guess it's generally really taboo to talk about incontinence and stuff and even though it hasn't happened often it really feels like too much to ask my therapist to accept the possibility that it could happen when she's there. Yeah, I'm trying to remember that about anonymity. I...

Thanks for the reply. I'm just not really sure where to direct my anger other than myself, when all of the things which bother me about my abuse were a result of my own body, rather than something that the abuser did. So I guess I get a lot of self-hatred, because it seems like the most...

This is my first post here so I hope it's OK. I get kind of edgy about posting in case someone recognises me but it's probably relevant to say that I'm a 20something, been seeing my current therapist for about a year. I was sexually abused when I was a young child (under the age of 7). My...