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How many times have I heard people say that? And for so many years, my life too would have been bearable, but for the flashbacks. These are not polite house guests who turn up on cue, with flowers and chocolates. They wake you in the middle of the night; they intrude upon you at moments of intimacy, in public, at work, at the most inconvenient times and in the most unexpected places. It’s hard not to feel totally out-of-control when flashbacks are dominating your life, because at the point at which they strike, you are outof-control. And they become a vicious cycle –you end up fearing the flashbacks, fearing the loss of control, the emotional  \nupsurge, the physical reaction, and in that stressed-out state you are moreliable to experience flashbacks…  \nComing to terms with flashbacks – understanding what they are, learning how to manage them, and eventually figuring out how to reduce them – has been a cornerstone of my recovery. When things are really tough and the flashbacks are unremitting, recovery often feels impossible and life itself hopeless. And yet, in a kind of paradox, flashbacks are a good sign. I believe that flashbacks are a sign of your brain trying to heal. Flashbacks contain unprocessed fragments of traumatic memory, and they burst into consciousness partly because your brain is trying to process these fragments and to see where they‘fit’. Flashbacks are horrendous – yes. But it can help if we reframe them as  \n1  \n[www.carolynspring.com](www.carolynspring.com)  \nMANAGING FLASHBACKS  \n by Carolyn Spring  \nsigns of our sanity, that our brains know that something is not right, and at least when they happen we can take some tiny crumbs of comfort from the fact that our brain wants to heal. Flashbacks, and the triggers that cause them, can be guideson our therapeutic recovery journey.  \nHOW DO WE DESCRIBE FLASHBACKS?  \nA flashback is a sudden, involuntary reexperiencing of a past traumatic event as if it is happening in the present.  \nTo a certain extent, I’ve always been slightly confused about what flashbacks are. I’ve seen many representations in films of people having flashbacks, and none of them ring true for me. For a longtime, I thought that it was me that was the problem – that I wasn’t really having flashbacks, that I was a fraud, or just making it upfor the attention. Of course, I hated the attention, and desperately wished that it was all ‘made up’, but nonetheless the doubts remained. How does anyone know what a flashback feels like – especially when you feel so‘derealised’ when it’s happening? How do we know that we all mean the same thing by the term ‘flashback’?  \nA scene in the film Catching Fire depicts one. The main protagonist, Katniss, has survived the annual ‘Hunger Games’in which two children from each of the twelve districts must fight each other  \nto the death as entertainment for the ruling classes. During this, to protect an ally, she kills a boy called Marvel with an arrow. (If ever there was an allegorical representation of ritual abuse, the Hunger Games series capturesit.) At the beginning of the second film, as Katniss is trying to readjust to life after her trauma, she is out in the woods, hunting. She shoots an arrow ata turkey, but instead, in a flashback, sees Marvel’s body collapsing to the floor. Her immediate physical and emotional reaction is clear. And part of me wants to jump up and down and say, ‘Yes, that’sit! That’s a flashback!’ while most of me actually feels a little guilty, because I know that most of the time it’s not as clear-cut as that for me.  \nIt’s hard to describe a flashback, because while it’s happening, key parts of the brain required to recall and articulate our experience shut down. As bloodflow is reduced to the word-generating part of our brain, Broca’s area, we find it difficult to vocalise our experience. 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