Dealing with the Aftermath of Flashbacks

This week, I am writing about my experiences in dealing with recovering a flashback as it happens. The series starts here. It has now been a few days since I had the flashback. I am doing okay. I am actually doing well for the most part, although the pain is still a bit raw. I [...]

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Flashbacks: The Morning after Recovering the Flashback

This week, I am writing about my experiences in dealing with recovering a flashback as it happens. The series starts here. I wrote my last post the morning after recovering the memory (10/24/08). I am writing this one immediately afterward. I typically recover my memories/experience flashbacks at night. That is the only down time I [...]

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Flashbacks: Experiencing the Trauma Again

This week, I am writing about my experiences in dealing with recovering a flashback as it happens. The series starts here. Last night (10/23/08), I made a point of going to bed an hour early. This is unusual for me. When I know that a flashback is coming, I typically procrastinate and wind up feeling [...]

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Preparing Yourself for Flashbacks after Child Abuse

In my blog entry yesterday, I shared that I would be focusing this week on my experience with dealing with a new flashback. I am writing today’s blog entry on Thursday, 10/23/08. I have had a pit in my stomach today. Out of nowhere, I started thinking about something that always perplexed me during my [...]

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Dealing with Flashbacks as Part of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

As I shared in my blog entry entitled Dealing with Memory of Date Rape into Adulthood, I had to deal with a flashback recently. Unfortunately, flashbacks are part of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and I am just going to have to ride them out. I really believed that I had finished having to work through [...]

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Holding onto Faith in the Face of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

*** This was supposed to post on 10/21/08. I just realized that it never did. – Faith *** On my blog entry entitled Riding Out Suicidal Urges, a reader named Matt shared his struggles with being married to a woman with dissociative identity disorder (DID) who has a suicidal alter part. His comment is a [...]

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Denial after Severe or Extreme Forms of Child Abuse

On my blog entry, Child Abuse: Severe Emotional Abuse, a reader posted the following comment: I was hoping when I read, “When a person suffers from severe emotional abuse, he might have trouble validating that the abuse was that bad because there was no physical or sexual abuse involved,” that I would read farther and [...]

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Animal Alter Parts and Other Nonhuman Alter Parts

Over on Isurvive.org, my favorite message board for child abuse survivors, a member posted a question about whether somebody with dissociative identity disorder (DID) could have an animal alter part. The answer to this question is yes. I had never read or heard about animal alter parts until discovering one in myself. I was lying [...]

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How to Process Anger after Child Abuse

On my blog entry How to Forgive an Abuser after Child Abuse, a reader posted the following question: Yeah, I know there must be rage. It bubbles up a little now and again. I am scared of its depths. I want to find it, connect with it, but something is blocking me…perhaps fear? How did [...]

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Helping Spouse with a Suicidal Alter Part

On my blog entry entitled Riding Out Suicidal Urges, a reader named Matt shared his struggles with being married to a woman with dissociative identity disorder (DID) who has a suicidal alter part. His comment is a long one, so I am not going to reprint it here. However, I do want to address the [...]

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