Signs you’re experiencing a emotional flashback
Your emotions elude you. You try to figure out how the situation at hand could’ve caused that much of an reaction in you. You don’t understand the logic behind it up until you go all the way back to memories of where the feeling first emerged. Usually it will trace back to a traumatic instance, and a small detail, wrong sentence or other sensory input was enough to trigger a flood of emotions.
You get that sense of impending doom, like smth will absolutely go wrong even though you have no rational explanation for it.
If you usually enjoy touch, you’re suddenly averse to it and the idea of it becomes uncomfortable.
You might suddenly feel the need for someone to comfort you even though you’re not sure for what, or what you’re even feeling.
You suddenly get the strong urge to isolate yourself and hide, flee the situation or social interaction and burry your head in the sand until it feels “safe” enough to come out again.
You feel the excessive need to daydream and to escape reality suddenly but you don’t really know why.
You might notice symptoms of dissociation in your body. Your hands feel unreal. You feel disconnected from yourself all of a sudden.
Your sense of time changes.
Your emotions feel like they don’t really belong to you all of a sudden and you feel a strong need to keep that seperation up.
Intense gut wrenching shame right after the emotional flashback hits. Even if you can’t identify the emotional flashback, you can definitely identify that sudden shame.
Feeling a spike in paranoia, like people are against you, suddenly reading ill intent into other people’s actions even if you rationally know they aren’t doing anything to warrant your suspicion.
