10 Tips to Handle Flashbacks | Trauma Prevention and Interventions

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Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Qualified Clinical Supervisor. She received her PhD in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida in 2002. In addition to being a practicing clinician, she has provided training to counselors, social workers, nurses and case managers internationally since 2006 through AllCEUs.com 10 #Tips to #handle #Flashbacks
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 What are flashbacks
00:55 Symptoms of flashbacks
03:35 Functions of flashbacks Why do I have flashbacks
10:55 Living with Flashbacks Coping Skills

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@DocSnipes 10 ай бұрын

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@giulianacr2638 2 жыл бұрын

Husband and I were driving down the road last week and I spotted a person that was a trigger for me in my trauma. I didn't know the man, but it took me back into a memory. My husband continued talking and I could hear his voice, but I was paralized, time stopped, and I got tunnel vision, I was totally engulfed in the memory. All senses are involved when having these flashbacks. I snapped out because he noticed my stupor and asked if I was listening. Now I know and realize why things like that happen. Instead of supressing the memory, I acknowledge my pain, I talk about it and try to find ways to compensate and calm down. Before, I wasn't aware of the process and how to deal with the memories and traumas. The first step is to have self awareness. Your videos have helped me a lot to recognize my struggles and work in areas I have to improve on. Learning techniques to work out emotions is the best to move forward.

@EHD351 2 жыл бұрын

Occasionally, even sitting at the Computer I get that: paralyzed, time stopped, and I got tunnel vision. Only lasts a few minutes however is quite upsetting.

@iamwabisabi3711 2 жыл бұрын

I used to get those. And I'd get really hot sweats. I think I got so used to them and my trauma that one day they just stopped. Became a part of who I am, I function now completely out of trauma and anxiety. Developed multiple sclerosis 😞

@jenethbarnum6686 Жыл бұрын

@@iamwabisabi3711 ū

@jamesfrancis303 Жыл бұрын

That is inspiring

@EHD351 2 жыл бұрын

For me, the Kitchen and Bathroom trigger; especially the Kitchen. Bad memories after bad memories after bad memories. Thank You for recognizing this condition.

@danathomas3479 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t have any friends, not because I am not friendly because I am very friendly but I don’t trust people so I have pulled away… my flash backs are mostly not understandable. But they don’t last very long. They are intense but short. One time I had some words with this lady and she decided to hug me, I had a complete breakdown and begged her to let go I kept saying please let me go I was in bed for 2 weeks after I just cried and cried. I couldn’t get over the humiliation of my breakdown…. I am very careful now to not let myself fall into this ever again.

@edtheangler4930 8 ай бұрын

I'm here because I was sitting at the train and got a flashback from a song I hadn't heard in like 5 years and I checked the thumbnail and the album had the same cover that I had on a shirt back when the traumatic event happened. I had this sudden rush of adrenaline and felt like lashing out and defending myself, but my body felt small and weak and I started crying. This video and reading comments calmed me down a little

@DocSnipes 8 ай бұрын

I am sorry you got a flashback from hearing a song and I appreciate you watching the video. I am glad the video helped and I appreciate you watching it.

@elizabethscott3048 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Snipes, you never cease to amaze me with your output and the excellent quality thereof. You are an inspiration!

@dee0731 2 жыл бұрын

Great teaching thank you Doc Snipes, well explained 🙌🏻🌞

@Nandaksilva 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! It helped me a lot! I was in the middle of a flashback and was not being able to help myself, after your video I felt more empowered to do it! God bless you! 🙏🏻

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Wishing you, peace, health, and, happiness.

@UmmAmirAbdullah 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. I have found the information so valuable and going to share with my therapist. ❤

@TaylorandLuke Жыл бұрын

This helped me so much. Thank you for taking the time to share these tips. It helps just to hear even that it’s okay and acceptable to still be recovering. Thank you!

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

You’re so welcome. I appreciate you watching the video. What did you find most useful from it? Other videos you might be interested in can be found at kzfaq.infosearch?query=trauma

@joshthebest652 5 ай бұрын

I was SA at 6 and I have all of these I really needed this

@DocSnipes 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching the video

@mumsie8578 Жыл бұрын

Had the first one I've had in about a year just now. Thank you for this video. I needed all these reminders. And high five to progress. I didn't piss my pants this time.

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you watching.

@EvaEva-lf3ww 2 жыл бұрын

Very grateful. So useful

@dee0731 2 жыл бұрын

Great advice you share about the grounding technique you use with the worry stone.

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@isa811116 Жыл бұрын

Actually listening to this video helped me to stop an occurring flashback. Thank you

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! You’re so welcome. I am grateful to be of help and I appreciate you watching the video.

@mooncosmicpower2956 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you again for a superb helpful video! =)

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help! Thanks for watching.

@seans9203 2 жыл бұрын

Well said - thank you Doc Snipes - Seans

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

@ajlind20 2 жыл бұрын

Question concerning flashbacks: is it possible to flashback to times when you dissociated instead of the triggering or traumatic event? I have memories of “tuning out”, shutting down, my world going grey during certain events but can’t recall the actual trauma. Or are characteristics of dissociation such that you wouldn’t remember going into that state? Thank you so much for your videos. I always learn so much.

@CrazyPaine Жыл бұрын

I just wanted to post here. I experienced sexual assault and physical abuse by my ex. He used to scream at me, throw things around, throw things near me and then finally threw an umbrella at me hitting me on my side. Literally on Tuesday a man literally threw a scanner at a pallet out of nowhere and he was near where I was working. It shook me so bad. I couldn't focus and I was experiencing and having flashbacks to that moment with my ex doing that shit to me. I just have been a really hard time with focusing and doing my work. I feel exhausting, staying up, feeling unsafe and more. Thank you for making this video.

@forealady2177 Жыл бұрын

This was helpful, thank you

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

You’re so welcome. Thanks for watching the video. What did you find most useful from it?

@forealady2177 Жыл бұрын

@@DocSnipes the suggestions of journaling, breathing techniques, staying busy, using my support systems. I dealt with a traumatic event Sunday night, and I was having flashbacks for the first few days but I’ve been doing better now.

@dmm6341 2 жыл бұрын

What if u have lifelong trauma?....and u cannot control your dreams....your thoughts...cry at the drop of a dime...how can u live?? Drugs don't work...make it worse...piling on more grief. As well I don't want to go through it again...I won't survive it.

@krisgaines9164 2 жыл бұрын

So many people relate.

@robertjoe7590 Жыл бұрын

I lost my boy 27 days old, i got the most dreaded call any parent could receive. I broke down, they never told me he passed but i felt his presence Leave this earth. While this was going on a had a voice out of no where but it came from some where say " daddy i died but im ok, i love you" I FUCKING LOST IT., I make it to the hospital where he passed. I walk into his room after talking with docotors. He layed on his bed lifeless. His vessel here but his soul gone. I had a very deep connection with him after he passed. We talked. Well i talked to him. I would ask him to have presence and comfort his mother. Which he absolutely did which is a totally diffrebt topic. But to help with anyone. The story is more detailed. But i had severe flashbacks for a year plus. I was in that room where he passed holding him which i did. But the flashbacks where intense, bon stop 24/7 iI lived it day in and day out. I finally broke down and went to the hospital i told them what i was experiencing and asked if i could sit in the room where he passed. I walked in and had to talk with him abd have a certain level of piece with his passing. I still think him dying so young is absolute bullshit and it infuriates me. Its tough. But ever since i revisited the room he passed in the flashbacks have calmed. We also have another son that keeps us busy. But my boy thats up in heaven is always on my mind.

@mynameismud2141 2 жыл бұрын

perfect

@dee0731 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the support, Dee!

@dee0731 2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome Doc Snipes! I am so thankful for this video because it has helped me tremendously, exactly what I needed to hear which has given me great, great healing as I have been practicing the techniques! 🙌🏻🌞

@gloriagibson2595 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly me

@matthewpetersen4417 Жыл бұрын

Things are deeper than my comment, but just had a nasty argument with my child's mother, it triggered so many different flashbacks, I'm sick to my stomach, chills, emotional and very lost in my mind, idk anymore is my ADD making things worse - a recent 2021 work "accident" I have never felt things so real, even an event from 3rd grade is vivid. Both are similar though, so I made that connection. It's getting crazy the deeper I go how unreal my life was. I do have a psych don't worry.

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing. What is your favorite tip from the video?

@alysmarcus7747 Жыл бұрын

i don't sleep. i'm 61. i've never slept more than 2 hours at a time - since childhood. i was in therapy for 25 yrs with a really excellent doctor for CPTSD, DID etc He died last year. I'm trying to figure out how i manage on my own, i do fairly well -but there is no stopping a flashback -and i'm bound to have at least one a day. I would love to get some sleep. The safety plan is excellent - i'm very fortunate to have my husband for that -because going t o a doctor gets more than interesting. Something i want to say here is that not everyone can tell themselves where they are when they are having a flashback., if you dissociate that heavily-you don't have the ability to say, 'i'm this old, and i'm here in my home . . .etc

@littlewoodchopper2659 Жыл бұрын

Are you on any meds. I didn't even take a nap for 3 weeks. Never slept much before that but I've been on antipsychotics for a week now and sleeping so much better

@alysmarcus7747 Жыл бұрын

@@littlewoodchopper2659no - except clonazepam for anxiety and seizure control

@taurean904 2 жыл бұрын

After I bad decision, I left the safe and familiar home and area I lived in for 25 years. This was followed by a series of traumas, all related to losing homes and a sense of safety... I was evacuated from my new home in the middle of the night and lost it to a forest fire, my father died and my childhood home was sold, etc. Now I am completely alone, feel constantly unsafe and have become ill and nearly bedridden. I constantly have “flashback” images of the safe home and city I used to live in. I also dream of being there nearly every night. It feels tortuous because it’s something I cannot go back to. Are these considered flashbacks, if they’re not of a traumatic place, but of a safe place? It feels like torture to remember what it feels like to be safe and be reminded that I am no longer there. And of the bad decision it was to leave. I have never heard of this before and my mental state is getting worse. Thank you.

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe not textbook flashback.... but, something you have to address and learn to cope with / move on.... Or maybe work out a way to move back to that area if you are much happier there? Maybe similar house in the same neighborhood? Similar town. // Also, we all have times and places we would like to go back to, if we could time travel. I just tell you that to also normalize how you are feeling, not lessen it. Thanks for watching. Wishing you peace, health, and happiness.

@KaraKahn Жыл бұрын

Ugh even certain weather gives me flashbacks that brings sadness depression tinitus and nausea 😢

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

I am sorry about that and I appreciate you watching the video. What tips will you use first to address flashbacks? Other videos you might be interested in can be found at kzfaq.infosearch?query=trauma

@chy391 Жыл бұрын

Who more feel fysikal tirdness after flashback s ❤

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. What tips will you use first to handle flashbacks?

@edtheangler4930 8 ай бұрын

I feel electricity and tingling in my mouth, hands and feet

@chy391 8 ай бұрын

Pray to God heal our hearts and correct affers realise flash backs pains . Heart can only Almighty heal and do good sake of God

@kirbymoffatt3641 Жыл бұрын

Even when I don't get manic or squirrelly my heart rate shoots up higher than it is normally and my heart rate usually about 115 when I'm out in public and I get the worst headaches even if it doesn't leave me running around bouncing off the walls like it used to and you can actually see all that dudes having a flashback now even when I get past that squirrely stuff get the worst headache like the one I got now I grit my teeth I clench my jaws and I

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you watching

@TheFirstManticore Жыл бұрын

Vacation to Canada or Mexico on July 4.

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@scottbillings6592 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't stop. Goes away then random like a jump scare constantly unless in consistent doing something that keeps rather hard focus

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

I am sorry about that. Maybe the videos on addressing trauma help: kzfaq.infosearch?query=trauma

@kaelynnedesaulniers9310 Жыл бұрын

I don't remember the last time I slept more than 2 hours combined, or the last day utter felt like I could breathe again.... Good luck to all of you, please take care of yourselves. I hope one day we're all able to sleep through the night.

@DocSnipes Жыл бұрын

I am sorry about that and I appreciate you watching the video. Here are some videos that might help with sleep: kzfaq.infosearch?query=sleep

@mathewrinehart530 2 жыл бұрын

When I wake up in the morning it's like I can't talk like nothing's there does anybody know what this is or why it happens it happens for the first hour or so like im out of it

@cassandraheard7811 2 жыл бұрын

I sometimes have that and so have others I've talked with

@mathewrinehart530 2 жыл бұрын

@@cassandraheard7811 That's anxiety ?

@mathewrinehart530 2 жыл бұрын

@@cassandraheard7811 Do you know what it is ?

@cassandraheard7811 2 жыл бұрын

@@mathewrinehart530 i don't remember what i read except that the feeling was very common. I didn't have it when I had children to take care of (grown now). I probably didn't have time to notice. Maybe that was a good thing. :-) I also didn't notice when my job changed to early morning. Again... No time for it?

@mathewrinehart530 2 жыл бұрын

@@cassandraheard7811 Does it have to do with sleep or anxiety ?

@sarahwarren1041 2 жыл бұрын

Safety plan, recovery kit.

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Wishing you peace, health, and happiness.

@sandradavis6760 2 жыл бұрын

Just listening to this is igniting (triggering) me. Had to stop halfway through.

@DocSnipes 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear. Maybe watch it in small pieces, if you think it will help you. If you think it is too much, you may want to work through it with a local Licensed Professional Counselor.