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Kenjitsuka
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18 Jul 2012, 2:37 pm

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Recently I've been experiencing 'flashbacks' to random memorires of tramatic events that have occurred, months, years even decades before in the past.

I was at work on Friday and I had a flashback to being in the playground on a wet April day and I was upset that it was too wet play ourside and there were too many mosquitoes. This had no bearing on the work I do as a 41 year old truck dispatcher. My mind jumps around to things that happened , 10, 15, 25 years ago with no apparent pattern or meaning; I can't see to escape from this.

Does anyone elso, in particular older aspies, have problems with this? What have you done to cope?


EMDR is THE therapy for these PTSD related symptoms!! !
Find a therapist you can connect with and you'll see results real fast!
I have made amazing progress so far, and my life was basically hell on Earth from birth till age 18... :oops:


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18 Jul 2012, 2:40 pm

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PTSD- never heard of it. Before I heard about Asperger's I was in and out of inpatient and out -patient medial care for a variety of diagnoses; 'panic disorder', 'social phobia', 'depression' 'social avoidance' 'stress', nothing really took until I learned about Asperger's when I was 35.


Definitely Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, I have it too.

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Just typing this now, I'm having a memory flashback to when I was renovating my aunt's house in 1991; this has no bearing whatsoever on me here and now.

Why does this happen??


It's called a Trigger, and it can be quite subconscious.
Your higher brain doesn't notice the Trigger, but your subconcious is picking it up and automatically linking the past memories to the present.

EMDR therapy should help, it's the best independently proven thing in psychiatry (way above for example anti-depressants).
My EMDR therapist is a psychologist who is also specialized in hypnotherapy and NLP, a great combo to look for!! !


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18 Jul 2012, 4:53 pm

I just randomly saw something really gross and disturbing as a kid and still think about it every day. Is there a way to deal with something like that?



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19 Jul 2012, 12:37 pm

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I just randomly saw something really gross and disturbing as a kid and still think about it every day. Is there a way to deal with something like that?


EMDR is perfect for that as well...
I've read some scientific papers a while back where an autistic women was attacked on the subway and didn't dare to come near one for a year or so.
If I recall correctly it was "fixed" (i.e. properly processed in her brain) by just four sessions of 1.5 hours each...

P.S.
I don't have any investment in this therapy, other than finding out for myself that it works really well for me.


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19 Jul 2012, 4:11 pm

Yes, there are times when I fixate on negative or traumatic memories. Pretty bad s**t, some of it. Don't know how to just stop thinking about it. Wish I trusted or believed in therapists. Parents used to use them almost like a punishment. "Act right, or you'll have to see a shrink again." Had a few when I was a kid, they were useless.


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