To have a flashback involves revisiting the scene of an actual traumatic event. You have traveled through time and reexperience the event as if it is happening all over again. You may feel what you did during the event. That is not just a thought or a memory. No, it’s being there all over again. […]

Sometimes others notice our trauma symptoms that we aren’t aware of having. They may point out our staring into space, not answering a question, or sad expression. Trauma can involve dissociation in which we are not always aware of our environment. Perhaps anxiety and fear are crowding our minds, leaving us looking inward and trying

We notice our own trauma symptoms like high anxiety, high startle response (jumpy and hyper alert), and a sense of terror that accompanies us—an unwanted companion. Terror can transverse our bodies so that we have stomach and head aches, as well as other somatic (physical) symptom that drain our energy and weaken our immune system.

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