I write this I recall the first emotional flashback I was ever able to identify, although I did not identify it until about ten years after it occurred.
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A sense of feeling small, young, fragile, powerless and helpless is also commonly experienced in an emotional flashback, and all symptoms are typically overlaid with humiliating and crushing toxic shame.
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Toxic Shame
Self-Abandonment
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Abject feelings of loneliness and abandonment
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Fragile Self-esteem
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rather than as learned maladaptations to stress
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Rage creates fear,
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disgust creates shame in the child in a way that soon teaches her to refrain from crying out,
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Trauma occurs when attack or abandonment triggers a fight/flight response so intensely that the person cannot turn it off once the threat is over.