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They mimic the original trauma by reactivating stress responses in the body and altering thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Flashbacks can last seconds to hours, may occur anywhere, and can leave people disoriented until safety is recognized. 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They can arrive suddenly and out of the blue. Their effects can be powerful and distressing. Having to cope with them can be frustrating and, at times, even embarrassing. Understanding your flashbacks better and learning ways to manage them can help a lot.  \nWhat is a flashback?  \nHaving flashbacks is a normal reaction to a frightening and overwhelming event (or events) that you’ve been through, recently, some months ago, or even years ago. A flashback feels as though you’re back in the middle of your traumatic experience or reliving some aspect of it. It can seem like  \nit’s still happening or happening all over again. This re-experiencing can be in vivid detail.  \nA flashback can mimic the original traumatic event because it causes a very similar level of stress in your body. As you begin to sense fear and threat, your brain gets reactivated within seconds. The same hormones get released through your body that did when the trauma happened, such as adrenalin and cortisol. Your heart beats faster and your muscles and body systems react like they did at the time. Your brain is trying to protect you as it puts you into survival mode and you flee (run away), freeze or fight back against the threat you think is there. All these instinctive and automatic high-stress reactions affect you physically. They also affect your thoughts and feelings and how you behave during that flashback.  \nA flashback can last seconds, minutes or even hours.  \nThey can happen anytime and anywhere, including at work, in social situations, or during nightmares. They can happen to anyone after traumatic situations of any kind.  \nDuring a flashback it can be difficult and confusing to connect back to the present moment and to what is real. As a flashback ends, it will usually take some moments or minutes for a person to fully recognise where they are, who they are with, and that they are safe.  \nWhat can trigger them?  \nFlashbacks can be set off subconsciously by anything that relates to your five senses – things you see, hear, touch, smell or taste. These ‘triggers’ can bring back distressing and frightening memories that re-activate your brain’s survival mode. For example, a photo, a place, someone’s face, a song, the sound something makes, words you hear, a certain meal, a familiar smell, an object you see, a pain or body sensation you get, or a certain date.  \nWhy do they happen?  \nDuring any trauma our brains become highly stressed. Flashbacks and other post-trauma reactions are not about a person refusing to let go of the past.  \nThey are symptoms of a brain that’s trying to process the overwhelming things that happened. Traumatic memories can get tangled up. How the brain stores them can get confused. Some memories can’t be easily recalled. Research is now finding out a lot more about how complex and problematic traumatic memories can be.  \nFor most people, flashbacks gradually decrease over time as a person’s brain recognises the threat has passed, gets out of survival mode and re-balances itself. For some people, the impact of trauma can be more complicated. As their brain tries to bring the traumatic memories together and heal, regular and troubling flashbacks continue. In this situation, people can benefit from having professional assistance to help their brain find ways to get back into balance again.  \n© [Tandem Road 2020 | www.tandemroad.com | FLASHBACKS/1220](Tandem Road 2020 | www.tandemroad.com | FLASHBACKS/1220)  \nCONTACT  \nVictim Support  \nGet Help: 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) [enquiries@victimsupport.org.nz](enquiries@victimsupport.org.nz)[ ](enquiries@victimsupport.org.nz)[victimsupport.org.nz](victimsupport.org.nz)  \n1  \nWhat Helps?  \nYour best first response is to ground yourself Use your five senses to connect you with the here and now. Look around you. Name and count the things you can see and their colours. 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