Do Flashback Anxiety And Dissociation Linger

[sonicwhite]

Like when I was doing the DXM and thought Trump was the Anti Christ and stuff. It was pretty much what I went through in 05.

So my question is when you have a flashback of a trauma let's say happen in 95. Will you think it's 95 all over again or is it just the terrible trauma you went though during that period.

I'm trying to piece together whether it was a psychotic episode or a flashback.

 

[Riot]

@sonicwhite, I found this link to be helpful.

"Psychosis or being psychotic means that the person is out of touch with reality. Having a flashback and knowing it is a flashback rather [than] believing the event is actually recurring is not psychotic... "

 

[sonicwhite]

Well I knew I was psychotic. I would lose myself then gain myself if that makes sense. I knew I was delusional. If I didn't I wouldn't be able to post anything about it.

So to me it was a flashback. Yes it probably drew out my psychosis but I have had it before that I didn't freak out and really believe my delusions.

 

[jbrown2691]

Like when I was doing the DXM and thought Trump was the Anti Christ and stuff. It was pretty much wh...

I had a flashback yesterday. The lingering went on four about 5 hours where as I was feeling on edge, hopeless, frozen at my chair at times and confuse. .hope that helps. I consider that whole time hell.

 

[Dissociated1]

My experience is not a reality shift of it being 1995 but my mind reliving the emotions of the trauma as if it was happening to me her and now. The flashbacks themselves rarely last more than an hour. The feelings are gone immediately after they are over, but I remain in a somewhat dissociated state until I can sleep. When ever possible I take a nap if it is too early to go to bed for the night.

A slight exception was the horrible flashbacks I had when 2 of my alters became self aware. The shock in seeing my adult body. Realizing all the years that had passed them by, and the pain in accepting the world, everyone and everything they knew was gone. It must be similar to how Rip Van Winkle felt when he woke up.