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Traumatic Memory : Flashbacks, Fragments, Nightmares And Repression

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Flashbacks are hallmark features of both PTSD and complex PTSD. Remembering traumatic events is in some ways beneficial. For example, it allows us to review the experience and learn from it. Also, by replaying the events, their emotional charge is diminished. However, sometimes the process breaks down and the memories remain powerful and frightening. Sometimes …

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PTSD Nightmares : Content, Symbols, Information Processing Theory And Paradoxical Intention

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A particular torment of nightmares is, of course, that after a day spent in mental anguish in a state of wakefulness, they prevent one from escaping this mental pain even in sleep so there is no respite from one’s suffering. Indeed, when one has intense and terrible nightmares, one fears going to sleep; for us, it is not …

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Have Effects Of Trauma Made You Afraid Of Going To Sleep?

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  Are You Afraid Of Going To Sleep? My so-called ‘sleep’ (it’s stretching things to dignify it with that word, actually, even in inverted commas), in the past, has been appalling: it would take me at least three hours to lose consciousness, and, even then, I would wake, with a violent, shuddering start, ridiculously frequently …

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