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View Poll Results: Do you suffer flashbacks, or non-specific nightmares? | |
I suffer flashbacks of my trauma(s)
|     | 9 | 16.98% | |
I suffer from non-specific nightmares
|    | 9 | 16.98% | |
I suffer from a mixture of flashbacks and non-specific nightmares
|    | 32 | 60.38% | |
I do not suffer from flashbacks or nightmares
|    | 3 | 5.66% | 
01-07-2008, 08:09 PM
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When I first started working through the memories, my OH told me I had repeated nightmares for weeks. I'm thankful he never woke me up during the nightmares - I never remembered them the next day, but my mind was obviously working through some things. Once I'd worked through things a bit more, they stopped. These days I rarely have nightmares, but when I do, I'm usually too terrified to move or do anything, but if I can eventually make myself roll over and touch my OH, that's usually enough to calm me down and I go back to sleep.
I have a lot of flashbacks though. Sometimes I'm completely in the flashback and I don't know who or where I am. Others it's intrusive but I'm still concious of who I am and vaguely aware of where I am. So I voted that I just have flashbacks. |
19-07-2008, 08:03 PM
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Posts: 44
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I have frequent flashbacks both night and day. When I am able to sleep and the nightmares come, I usually awaken and am soon hit with flashbacks in all their fury. |
23-07-2008, 02:45 AM
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I have nightmares mostly. I go through periods of them where I then dread going to sleep because of them. Last night I stayed up till 2 even though I was exhausted and then woke up at 6:45. I also will get what I call moments during intimacy. I will all of a sudden freak out and feel like I am somewhere else and that it is not the person I love with me but someone else and I want to push them off me. I cry and then curl up into a ball. I don't really like to call them flashbacks because I am not thinking it is the man that raped me on top of me but that it is some stranger and they are hurting me. |
26-07-2008, 03:39 PM
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Posts: 117
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I have both specific and non-specific nightmares, and lots of them...very little on the flashbacks. Many times my nightmares seem to be taking pieces of what happened, and molding them into other scenarios. I feel the same fear and the resulting injury is still the same, but how I got it differs. |
03-08-2008, 08:54 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Northern AZ
Posts: 113
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flash backs once in a while and the dreams I can not remember but my wife says she has seen me have them often. |
29-08-2008, 06:23 AM
| | | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: moorisville nc
Posts: 20
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It was so bad that i had to move my family from new york to n.c |
02-09-2008, 02:40 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 7,426
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I had to choose the last one... I don't suffer either anymore. If you asked me this years ago, yes would have been the answer. Now... nothing for those two. |
04-09-2008, 10:38 AM
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Posts: 3,087
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I decided to vote no as I have so few flashbacks and no nightmares at all. Actually it's rare that I even remember my dreams. I had one the other night that I rememberd, First time in ages. |
05-09-2008, 04:27 PM
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Posts: 29
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I had nightmares of the event for many years but they have subsided to a once in a blue moon but when it comes up I'm wiped out for a day or so. Flashbacks are a monthly though, sometimes daily as the event date becomes closer. My Pdoc has me on Buspar, and it can give you some pretty weird dreams-at least in my case. |
07-09-2008, 06:56 AM
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Non- specific nightmares for several years, now I can go on for a long period of time without having any. At least once I have had a night terror (non-specific, it included a crow on a sewing machine...) | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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