last night i sied cause i saw the that abused me, and it brought back memoies of the abuse. i didnt know what else to do. i tried my other coping skills, but nothing worked so i ended up hu4rting myself. i dont think that my social worker understands me and i dont see her enough, i see once every two weeks. i need to see her once a week. i tried to tell her that, but dont listeren to me.
Flashbacks are hard to deal with, I know, as I have them sometimes… They can be very scary sometimes 🙁
The best way I’ve learned to deal with flashbacks is to find something in my immediate environment to focus on, like the feeling of my sheets beneath me in bed or I’ll stare out the window at the tree or I’ll rub my stuffed animal or I’ll turn on my headset – just playing the same song over and over and over again. I attempt to refocus myself on something PHYSICAL in my immediate environment. When the time is appropriate, I pick up the phone and call someone and tell them what happened or I find someone to talk to (like when I was in the hospital and like what I’ll do when I leave for treatment in a little over a week).
You need to tell your social worker you are having the flashbacks. If she can’t see you more than once every two weeks, then maybe she can help you set up an appointment with a counselor who could see you once a week.