Emotional flashbacks are troubling and often disabling events that cause a person to experience alarming and crippling bursts of strong emotions. Emotional flashbacks are experienced without the linked visions from the past that accompany average flashbacks.
In this article, we shall examine together what is going on in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) of those experiencing emotional flashbacks.
What is Trauma?
Trauma is a normal response to abnormal situations such as a car accident or other life-altering event. The best definition I have ever read for trauma is a quote by Cody Wiggs, LPC and it states:
“Trauma is an event, or series of events, which overwhelms the central nervous system. Trauma occurs when one’s ability to defend, protect, or say no is overwhelmed.”
However, the type of trauma that is the cause for emotional flashbacks involves complex trauma which both describes a child’s exposure to repeated traumatic events and the long-term effects of this exposure.
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