Do You Recognise This Behaviour? Blackouts!

[Tessan25]

hi!
i got some kind of blackouts when i get them i are acting out and i do and say everthing exaktly like i did the night i was raped
are this unuseal for ptsd?
i dont remember anything of this..
my mother and here new boyfriend are the one that has seen this and told me..
It have been a rather emberresing moments that the police trought i was drunk..

and put in a cell to sober upp..

have anything likely happend to you?

[estrella_del_mar]

i think it is "normal" in ptsd.
normally everyone of us act in the present on the basis of the past, using the past experiences to react in a new situation when we recognize similar characteristics. it's the process of learning. it' our intelligence.
this i have described is a normal path our brain follows, from the past to the present.
what you are talking about is a process from the past to the present too, but in a sudden way, so sudden and violent that you don't remember when it appens. this because your mind really can't stand it!
what you have to do is, whit the help of your therapist, to slow those scenes down, in your mind, so that you can learn from them and go ahead.
and when i say "learn", in this case i mean "recognize everything".
it is painful, but it is the only way..
have you ever attended a course of personal defense?
ciao! :hello:

[NotDepressed]

Yes, I've experienced blackouts where I behave out of character and in relation to past abuse.

What happens when you blackout?

[Tessan25]

Hi notdepressed!
Icant remember anything of it..but people tell me that i fight for my life..
like i did the night when i was raped..
people tell me that i are whery angry and lus out to depend my life

[Tessan25]

Hi estrella-del-mar
i have been going to self defends classes before this happend to me and thats why i am alive today
i used the things i rememberd from it to defend mysealfe
But it was established that i was druged to i have had someone that put somthing in my drink