Body memory flashbacks

[pentagram]

Body flashbacks? Body memories?


Anybody else get them?

I get extremely painful aches in my arm and shoulder that come out of the blue, I know what they relate to now but I wish they would just fuck off.

I used to scratch my right forearm till it was red with blood to stop the incessant itch emanating from it. I never knew what caused it and it had my GP completely baffled until last year when in a body memory flashback I remembered that is where they attached the electrodes when I was given electric shocks. So these body flashback memories do have a use in helping me find a way to understand my PTSD. I no longer itch there but I do still feel extreme pain occasionally.

Very violent spasms in my stomach, there is nothing physically wrong, I have had all sorts of tests and cameras inside my body.

[OobieMoobie]

I don't know if it's the same thing, but I can think of two weird things my body does:

1. When I want to self harm or I'm triggered by something I get a tingling in the places I normally do it. I need to touch it or run cold water on it to get rid of it.

2. Sometimes (actually quite often) I can still feel myself being raped. Like I can feel the guy inside me. That's just horrible.

The mind is incredibly powerful.

[Gajolene]

I get them with waking from night terrors and vivid trauma flashbacks, they have diminished over time but a trigger can set them off.

[Luna Looney]

My doctor talked about this today, about a man who had PTSD and for some odd reason kept getting a pain in his right hand, unrelated to his trauma, but obviously caused by it, the flashbacks i think he said? He worked with him, with emdr and this got rid of it.

[Luna Looney]

I get the awful stomach pains. Not as much now. They take your breath away don't they. They flare up when i have episodes and calm when i am hiding from it all.