Poll How Often Do You Have Flashbacks?

[Enaila]

How often do flashbacks occur for you?

I struggle daily with staying grounded and it gets so tiring. I have many things which trigger flashbacks and many different trauma flashbacks.

I forgot to include: I never had a flashback as a choice.

 

[Panda Bear]

It's been monthly for the most part, even a few months at a time. Used to be daily.....

This time a year, it's a few times he's a month.

 

[aut555]

It depends on what is going on. If therapy, that can be immediately. If talking to ex, l may get flashback dream. Just my profile post talking about him gave me a bad nightmare. Too much unwanted male attention might trigger me. It's to sporadic to put in a neat little box.

Sorry if l let you down. Hope you are healing just the same, where flashbacks will become less and less, and happiness will become stronger.

 

[Friday]

It depends. Past couple years it's been daily. Whether it's a flicker or I'm losing hours to them each day? Varies a whole lot. Roughly, though, it's about half as much this year as last year.

The 3 years prior, they were sorta ramping up. A bad weekend. Then every other week for a few days, then for the whole week, etc. Just cycling harder, faster, longer, more often... Until about 2 years ago when things were the hardest.

10 years prior to that? A few times in total, maybe.

5 years before that? Back to hot & heavy, again. Or for the first time, rather. :P

I've got a good 20 year arc to look at, though.

 

[EveHarrington]

Didn't vote.

I don't keep track anymore. My flashbacks are sneaky. It's impossible to tell if my emotions are fully in the present or not-----but are they for anyone? Hence the murky grey area of emotional flashbacks.

 

[Enaila]

It depends on what is going on. If therapy, that can be immediately. If talking to ex, l may get flashba...

No let down. I'm just curious. I agree therapy triggers more flashbacks. I just have so many triggers I feel I am flashing hourly and it is frustrating and exhausting. It gets confusing sometimes as sense of time all discombobulated.

 

[aut555]

It's like the Bermuda Triangle, you fall in, then you fall out scratching your head. Did that just happened? By the time you analyze it, another hour, another day, another year like @Friday says.

 

[Naoru]

No vote here either. It really depends on what is going on in my life at the time. Many times a day, a couple times a month, whatever.

And most of the time I feel like I don't know what the hell is going on anymore anyway. Level: Beginner

 

[Ronin]

Around anniversaries, I'm counting the bright glimpses of minding anything present. Similar after new trauma of some depth.

Other than? Usually daily, but how much they uproot me varies.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

There should be "other please explain" in there.

It honestly depends. Sometimes its weekly, sometimes daily, sometimes I go weeks without one, ans recently its back to back quick flashes that are pretty much fast flashbacks as they are a flashback in every way execpt very fast and short.

 

[Deleted member 37605]

I also think there should be an "other"...

I don't have flashbacks to my trauma. However, when my trauma occurred, the time of day/night is important. What happened to me was that I woke up in the middle of the night (around 5 am in the summertime). Now, every morning I get severe morning anxiety and every evening around dusk I got panic attacks. This went on for about a month until I started learning to control and stop full blown panic attacks. But at dusk I still get this "buzzy feeling" followed by headaches.

So I do have flashback reminders..but I can't picture the event itself.

 

[Flong]

Wow...I'm a bit alarmed here. I'm the only one thus far who voted "Hourly".
It's been about two and a half years since the major event that caused the total collapse. However, there were so many events that happened in such a short time, I think once I deal with a flashback of one event, another has taken its place.