Thread: Do You Forget Flashbacks? Warning I Got Long Winded
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Old 20-10-2007, 12:01 AM
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Veiled,

Just a guess here....

Ok you have processed everything. You are hateful that the guy never paid for what he did.....You have turned the trauma inside out to figure things out.

Have you ever tried looking back at your emotions at the TIME your trauma was taking place??? I know that this is really really scary, but it's the one thing that has really helped me. When I have a flashback, I let it happen. I don't fight it. I then try and focus on the emotion I was having at the time of my event. As an adult now, I try and justify what I was feeling back then. If it was fear, hatred, shame or whatever emotion it was.....I find that if I focus on the emotion, and OK the emotion, the flashback ends quicker, and isn't as painful...

Don't know if I am making any sense here......I guess I am trying to say that I heal the emotion, by giving myself the permission to have felt that way at the time.....
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