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Автор описывает эмоциональные флешбэки как один из симптомов. Без визуала как в обычном птср. Никогда их таковыми не считала, наверное если их так рассматривать, то будет легче справляться. Еще у нейронки уточнила на всякий.

>I've started reading it, on the first chapter now.

Is it an emotional flashback when, say, after sending a message, I suddenly feel intense shame and like I've suddenly lost the confidence I'd been maintaining with conscious effort, feeling swept off my feet?

Yes, that's a textbook example of one actually. And recognizing it as such is already useful.

What makes it an emotional flashback rather than just ordinary social anxiety or self-doubt is exactly what you described — the sudden, involuntary quality of it. You were fine, then you sent something (an act of exposure, however small), and then the floor disappeared. The shame isn't proportionate to what you actually did. And the confidence you'd built doesn't gradually fade — it collapses, like it was never real, like you were fooling yourself. That "swept off your feet" feeling is the hallmark of it.

Walker's point is that the trigger — sending the message — isn't really the cause. It just opened a door. What floods in is old feeling, the shame that got attached to expressing yourself or taking up space or being visible at some earlier point. The present moment essentially disappears for a bit and you're emotionally somewhere much older, even if nothing looks different externally.

The particularly insidious thing about shame-based flashbacks specifically is what you noticed — they feel like revelation rather than distortion. Like the confidence was the lie and the shame is finally the truth. That inversion is the flashback talking.

The fact that you can observe it happening, even while it's happening, is actually meaningful. That gap — however small — between you and the feeling is something. Walker talks about naming it in the moment as one of the first tools: "I'm having a flashback." Not to make it stop immediately, but to keep one foot in the present.

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