Not trying to be intrusive or ask nosy questions, but I was wondering..... Has anyone experienced a genuine flash back of a traumatic event?
I don't mean thinking about the event and getting upset.
I mean where you are immersed in the experience as if it was happening to you in the present (or long after the original trauma). You think and feel things as if it was happening 'now'. You emotionally feel the way you did at the time, even physically feel it. Fear, physical pain, weakness, and you remember with perfect clarity what was said or where you were when it happened. Down to minute details like smells or the way the sun was shining on the trees or who said what and when.
While you are feeling, emotionally and physically, the traumatic event, you are somehow not 'attached' to your body. I feel like I'm floating above and slightly behind myself, watching the event. And I remember at the time of my traumatic event I had the same sensation, that I was not in my body somehow.
How do you handle it when you or maybe a loved one has a flashback? Can you get control of yourself or your loved one, or do you just have to let it play out?
And yes, I am seeing a professional about this. I am just curious what others may do when this happens.
I don't mean thinking about the event and getting upset.
I mean where you are immersed in the experience as if it was happening to you in the present (or long after the original trauma). You think and feel things as if it was happening 'now'. You emotionally feel the way you did at the time, even physically feel it. Fear, physical pain, weakness, and you remember with perfect clarity what was said or where you were when it happened. Down to minute details like smells or the way the sun was shining on the trees or who said what and when.
While you are feeling, emotionally and physically, the traumatic event, you are somehow not 'attached' to your body. I feel like I'm floating above and slightly behind myself, watching the event. And I remember at the time of my traumatic event I had the same sensation, that I was not in my body somehow.
How do you handle it when you or maybe a loved one has a flashback? Can you get control of yourself or your loved one, or do you just have to let it play out?
And yes, I am seeing a professional about this. I am just curious what others may do when this happens.