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May I ask a question? without being a troll and taking the post off topic?
Im new here as well,but I posted under a different name 9 years ago.
Only to come back trying to find the answers to my questions, then realizeing it was my own words i was reading!
It only registered with me as it was the same the date of trauma 8th Decemeber, and my anniversary PTSD symptoms
are severe.
What im asking is..
Every time i go to the dentist and someone touches me on my shoulder im throne into a flashback of my attacker dragging me for the door and trying to escape. It so horrific for me, what came next that even if my sister touches me on my shoulder at xmas, its like SCUMBAG has come back and dragging me into the past, but its happening now... Does anyone else get this? Like im in a time wolp? Spelling . sorry?
Its one of the part of the trauma that lasted 3hours i still have trouble coming to terms with..
Im like can i replace this traumaic memory that keeps repeating into a new memory/overlay of a dental nurse being kind and touching my
shoulder to reassure me that im doing well during a root canal.!
Im a very good patient, becasue i can easily dissociate and be someone else in my mind.
I can feel the physical pain( have root canal without numbing or injection ) but im somewhere else in my mind,so can get throught it.
Is this a postive for trauma survivors? That we can use dissocation in a postive way?
I just want to find a way to deal with the traumaic memories that are so horrific that my mind keeps replaying them in present day
without my control.
How do you deal with being awoken by an intruder whilst you where sleeping?....
My body never forgets and i jolt awake.
Is Their any other human being out their that has come to terms with being attacked whilst they where sleeping at 9am in the morning by a man that had broken into the house.?
I dont know how to deal with this 21 years later.?
Any ideas ,something that will help. anything you have found you do that works woul dbe so apprecaited.
Apolgies to orginal poster , i hope your still here and any words wisdom would be welcome
May I ask a question? without being a troll and taking the post off topic?
Im new here as well,but I posted under a different name 9 years ago.
Only to come back trying to find the answers to my questions, then realizeing it was my own words i was reading!
It only registered with me as it was the same the date of trauma 8th Decemeber, and my anniversary PTSD symptoms
are severe.
What im asking is..
Every time i go to the dentist and someone touches me on my shoulder im throne into a flashback of my attacker dragging me for the door and trying to escape. It so horrific for me, what came next that even if my sister touches me on my shoulder at xmas, its like SCUMBAG has come back and dragging me into the past, but its happening now... Does anyone else get this? Like im in a time wolp? Spelling . sorry?
Its one of the part of the trauma that lasted 3hours i still have trouble coming to terms with..
Im like can i replace this traumaic memory that keeps repeating into a new memory/overlay of a dental nurse being kind and touching my
shoulder to reassure me that im doing well during a root canal.!
Im a very good patient, becasue i can easily dissociate and be someone else in my mind.
I can feel the physical pain( have root canal without numbing or injection ) but im somewhere else in my mind,so can get throught it.
Is this a postive for trauma survivors? That we can use dissocation in a postive way?
I just want to find a way to deal with the traumaic memories that are so horrific that my mind keeps replaying them in present day
without my control.
How do you deal with being awoken by an intruder whilst you where sleeping?....
My body never forgets and i jolt awake.
Is Their any other human being out their that has come to terms with being attacked whilst they where sleeping at 9am in the morning by a man that had broken into the house.?
I dont know how to deal with this 21 years later.?
Any ideas ,something that will help. anything you have found you do that works woul dbe so apprecaited.
Apolgies to orginal poster , i hope your still here and any words wisdom would be welcome
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