Emotional Flashbacks

Emotional flashbacks are an indicator of wounds of childhood that have yet to be resolved. According to Pete Walker, an expert on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a Disorder much like PTSD but experienced by those who are experiencing long term abuse without possibility of escape, describes that when suffering from an emotional flashback there will be great shame and depression that stems from the child not getting their needs met by an abandoning and emotionally unavailable parent or primary caregiver. When flashing back, the sufferer may feel out of control and with little context as to the cause for their feelings. It is vital that those who have suffered parental neglect and abuse work through their painful feelings by staying present in their bodies and allowing the emotions to be processed with out self abandoning and sabotaging behaviors.