Flashbacks??

[Melody coates]

whenever I feel threatened verbally, physically ,or by seeing threatening words, my body automatically reacts. my heart rate quickens and my hands tremble .I remember once I received a threatening text from another female and my body reacted as if she was there in front of me. the most recent incident where some chick tried to drag me from a car, I had the same symptoms plus crying and I was stuttering the following few days afterwards. would you consider these flashbacks?

 

[Kas_Can_Fly]

Personally I wouldn't a flashback is actually re-experiencing a prior event - usually with more than one sense so feeling what you were experiencing physically and emotionally at the point of a trauma, or hearing and feeling the emotions, or smelling and feeling the physical elements of the trauma, a full body flashback is where you are fully back in the trauma with every sense. What you're describing sounds more like an anxiety and/or panic response - a part of the fight, flight, freeze survival instinct, it certainly sounds like you are really distressed by these things and that it took you a long while to find your feet afterwards but in my opinion, what you've described does not sound like a flashback. Though at least with myself however I've been known to minimize things, so someone else here may disagree with me. What do you think it was?

 

[Melody coates]

im not sure. I guess i'll have to ask a therapist

 

[Friday]

Nope... I'd consider them reactions, or maybe over reactions, dependingn on the circumstance.

 

[Justmehere]

Not flashbacks, but sounds like very intense anxiety and panic reactions. They can be very awful to experience and get through. Talking to a therapist would be a great idea - they can help you reduce these kinds of symptoms.

 

[TonyG]

My flashbacks put me back in a scene of horror, I can smell the air and taste the air, I relive the event, It's like I'm there again, In addition I have intrusive thoughts that are more detailed, like body parts blood and brain matter, My main problem most days is anxiety and I have learned to live with it, Make the effort and go and see someone. I am in therapy and it is helping me to process my memories.

 

[TonyG]

Sorry that last post of mine was a bit raw but I can't undersant why people think there is some glamor in having PTSD, I wish I did'nt have it and if you have read my story you would see I have delt with this for 30 years.

 

[joeylittle]

Nothing to apologize for, @TonyG. This is a place where you can say what you need to say.

 

[Melody coates]

@TonyG I never said it was glamorous? O.o

 

[TonyG]

All I can say to you is go and see a psychologist, they will tell you what is wrong or you will just go on not knowing, I went to the doctors for sleeping pills because I just can't sleep due to constant anxiety, I live on about 4 hours sleep a night and I was sent for 25 visits with a psychologist, I have my third visit in five days,

 

[bell]

To my understanding, flashbacks wouldn't cause you to stutter, but anxiety very well could.

When I have flashbacks I act on autopilot and feel like I am back in an abusive environment. As such, I have gone off on people when triggered as if out of nowhere and physically fought them. My brain and body just reacts without my okay per se, they are the worst. Afterwards I am kinda hungover for the next few days, my body and mind is wiped out.

That they are probably anxiety-ridden is a good thing as they will be easier to treat and work through.