8 years ago, I started to have extreme intrusive thoughts that bother and haunted me for 1.5 years. During that time, my mind and thinking was so messed up that I can practically imagine and doubt myself on anything. After that period, for some unknown reason, I was able to experience peace and calm for the next 5 years without worrying too much about the thoughts that haunted me before. During that time, I still have bad thoughts but I felt a sense of control over them and did not allow myself to be dominated by them. However, since 2005, I started to have flashbacks of the experience of 8 years ago. It got gradually worse this year since I kind of "identified"/"associated" with those flashbacks and thoughts. Now, does having those flashback thoughts mean I am going through the same ordeal again (ie. I am reliving the terrible experience) or am I simply having a flashback attack but I have generally already recovered and is different from the first time?
2007-02-07
08:44:53
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