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Emotional Flashbacks

Definition:

You experience sudden surges of intense emotions from past trauma triggered by something happening in the present.

What to Do:

You need to identify what triggers your emotional flashbacks.

Then practice managing and responding to your emotional flashbacks in healthy ways by consistently and deliberately using regulation techniques when they come up.

And use healthy coping strategies whenever it starts to feel unmanageable.

Why:

When you know the cause of your emotional flashbacks, you get a better idea of what you need to focus on when practicing and how to reduce your exposure to the things that trigger it.

Important: It’s a good idea to also look through the examples in the “How to Do It” section to see what this approach looks like in real life.

Emotional flashbacks are a normal human experience.

But some people are better at responding to them than others.

There are many reasons for this, one of them being narcissistic abuse.

If you’ve experienced it, you may struggle with emotional flashbacks more than someone who hasn’t.

But don’t think of it as something that’s “wrong” with you, because it isn’t.

It’s a skill you get to build, not a flaw you have to carry.

And skills are something anyone can build with practice.

Important: It’s a good idea to also look through the examples in the “How to Do It” section to see what this approach looks like in real life.

Your emotional flashbacks aren’t going to disappear overnight.

So it’s important to use healthy coping strategies when it comes up.

That way you can move through it instead of getting stuck in it.

Important: It’s a good idea to also look through the examples in the “How to Do It” section to see what this approach looks like in real life.

How to Do It:

These are examples of how other members of Unfilteredd have applied this in their own lives.

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