Varying flashbacks/dissociation

[Dorie]

Does anyone else have wildly varying responses to different triggers/stresses? Like sometimes I'll get really afraid and angry at the same time and want to fight, but other times I'll feel hopeless, and just detach from myself. It can be hard to predict what way I'll react to something.

 

[Swift]

Yeah absolutely. Even the same thing can provoke a different response on a different day for me.
I try and roll with the punches.

 

[hithere]

my automatic primative brain responses can never be predicted. It takes me awhile to figure out what exactly the stimulai was that triggered me, was it words someone said, a look on someone's face, a room configuration, I never know what will trigger me and even how I may react. I've screamed out loud really loud, I've jumped up and started pacing, I' suddenly sat down and frozen still as mouse, I've become beligerant and I've become submissive. I had a reaction Monday and I did not come out the altered state until this morning. ! not fun.