28. Trapped in Time: Flashbacks and Reenactment

Description

Focus on the ways that trauma survivors become trapped in time through the reexperiencing phenomena associated with post-traumatic stress: flashbacks, posttraumatic nightmares, body memories, and behavioral reenactments and offer ideas and suggestions for how to best manage re-experiencing phenomena when you are having them or observing them in others.

• HANDOUT: What are flashbacks?
• RESOURCE: Triggers, Flashbacks and Self-Harming Behavior: Deeper exploration of how and why flashbacks arise, what happens in the brain during a traumatic event, the two different kinds of memories that form, the circumstances that trigger the flashbacks later, and the connection to self-harming behaviors, how to respond, and the issue of “trigger warnings”.