Emotional Flashbacks Symptoms | Why You Feel Small & Helpless

Wonder if what you or someone you care about has experienced qualifies as a Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) Emotional Flashback? In this video I discuss emotional flashbacks symptoms, CPTSD symptoms, trauma, childhood trauma, trauma and stress, and what is a flashback. I reference Pete Walker's wonderful book "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" and discuss my personal experience with emotional flashbacks.
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[@CassieWinter]

Which part of Pete Walker's Emotional Flashbacks definition below resonates with you the most? " _Emotional flashbacks_ are perhaps the most noticeable and characteristic feature of Cptsd. Survivors...are extremely susceptibility to painful emotional flashbacks, which unlike PTSD do not typically have a visual component. Emotional flashbacks are sudden and often prolonged regressions to the overwhelming feeling-states of being an abused/abandoned child. These feeling states can include overwhelming fear, shame, alienation, rage, grief and depression. They also include unnecessary triggering of our fight/flight instincts. It is important to state here that emotional flashbacks, like most things in life, are not all-or-none. Flashbacks can range in intensity from subtle to horrific. They can also vary in duration ranging from moments to weeks on end where they devolve into what many therapists call a regression." - Walker, Pete. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA (p. 3). Azure Coyote Publishing. Kindle Edition.

[@gregallen6463]

It’s hard for me to talk about this but I had an intense emotional flashback rooted in childhood abuse a couple days ago. A jovial slap in the face triggered me and I regressed to an abused child state. The things that I said to the people I cared about, in a very public setting, shattered trust, put up walls and destroyed any progress I felt I had made. What I felt was very real but not perceived that way by anyone else around me. My trust meter of anyone around me flipped to zero instantly and the scared child came out in an ugly fashion. I felt like they were all there to attack me. 😢 Now I am trying to bridge the gap with the woman I love and have a constructive conversation about such a confusing and destructive phenomenon. Your video slowed me to identify what has been happening to me and empowered me to take it on. Thank you so much.

[@CassieWinter]

I'm sorry you were triggered so badly. 😢

[@ndestructible1659]

This is the best video I've seen on this subject. I have emotional flashbacks on a daily basis, and I'm tired of it. I'm really looking forward to getting into therapy to help with these.

[@CassieWinter]

Thank you! ❤️ And trauma therapy is hard work, but it's SO worth it. Let me know if you have any questions as you look for a therapist. 😊

[@ThelPic]

Also the freeze response is possible...I know one thing or two about that.

[@CassieWinter]

Yes. After finishing this video I realized I had left that out. Sometimes my chronic illness brain fog gets the best of me. 🤦 Freeze is one of my main responses to trauma.

[@stovetopweevil]

Realizing that my spouse and I would trigger emotional flashbacks in each other simultaneously was world-changing. Learning about emotional flashbacks was also the beginning of healing my relationship with my body.

[@halfmoonyogi4997]

I really relate to this explanation, and when I heard it, it made so much sense. A few months ago I explained to my therapist that during panic attacks, and sometimes lower levels of anxiety, I feel like I am back in the trauma. Not in the traditional sense of flashbacks, but I physically and emotionally feel small, hopeless, helpless, misunderstood, alone. I have the same intense emotions I had back then, and it comes with an intense dread and feeling of "it's happening again". I have intensely self critical thoughts that feel like it's my little self talking, because my adult mind is more rational and kind to myself when I am calm. The therapist didn't know what I meant. He compared this to "multiple personalities" and warned me to not separate myself too much so I don't "cause multiple personalities". He then referred to having said "multiple personalities" as being "borderline". I work and study in the field, so I knew that while BPD involves splitting and identity issues in some ways, it's not even close to the same thing as DID. So he was getting his diagnoses mixed up AND he had no idea what the hell an emotional flashback is or what Cptsd is to identify it for me. It's disappointing that this information isn't more well known by professionals. As soon as I learned what Cptsd is, all the issues that I had previously thought were unrelated to each other suddenly made sense. My experience made sense, and I felt less like something was innately wrong with me, and instead had language to describe what happened to me.

[@CassieWinter]

I'm so sorry your therapist isn't trauma informed. That kind of therapy can be re-traumatizing and absolutely awful. I myself spent years of my life in that kind of therapy and wish I could get those years back. So glad you're finally getting to the bottom of things. 🤗

[@AyleseW]

Finally having the language to describe the big picture that we've been experiencing in pieces for decades brings so much relief and empowerment! For me it's felt like, inside me was a room with the lights off, but I've got to find my way around somehow. All I could do was stumble around in the dark, stubbing my toe on the same damn thing repeatedly, sitting on the ground crying. Meanwhile my intuition was also there, personified with night goggles, trying to tell me what she saw -but the trauma earplugs were dampening her voice desperately trying to help me "see". When I began to get more psyhoeducation around cptsd (loved Pete Walker's book), it was like the earplugs fell out and my intuition handed me her night goggles. We could then work more in sync. I think this helps heal some gaslighting damage that disconnects us from our intuition. I have to add as well, that I also dove into Jungs cognitive functions in Meyer's Briggs personality typology, which I think really helped me to frame (with again more language), who I am and really start to love all my strengths and weakness in a way I can leverage for momentum in the world and actually creating boundaries not just in a cognitive way but coming from a self I feel like I know, love and want to protect.

[@yerawizardjimmeh809]

12:48 that is EXACTLY how I get when I get triggered and almost slip in a flashback. I get out of breath and my face gets cold and I disassociate. It’s so hard to tread the water sometimes, but we keep swimming. Thank you for making this video.

[@marritbrouwer226]

Wow, Ive been so mad at myself that I have trouble standing up for myself. So much fear, anger, fear of abandonment. That mindset didn't help me at all and made me fear every opportunity of an incoming discussion or argument. I always blamed my trauma, but I remember being so frustrated with my parents who were so controlling, demanding and ignorant. It broke my heart.

[@CassieWinter]

Standing up for yourself can be SO HARD with C-PTSD, as most conflict is itself triggering and takes your out of yourself. You're not alone.

[@kimlec3592]

@ Marrit Brouwer : same.

[@onthelolo2389]

You are me. To the tee. I couldn’t even put that in words myself but I find myself constantly angry when I don’t know how to respond or when I freeze. It makes me hate and distrust myself. When I act in a way I don’t like I immediately (In my head) punish myself by calling myself an idiot etc. I literally cannot help feeling like a child and the adult in me gets soooo angry at myself . I’m dealing w the fact that I’m happy my mom died bc she abused me and let her husband abuse me but at the same time now I don’t have a mom and she represents a part of me. I’m so torn and so hurt

[@Traumarecoverynow4u]

This is a great video. I’m a trauma specialist mental health therapist, and I “consume” a lot of info in the area of trauma. I came to this video, however, because I was really activated this week, and I needed some fresh insights. It’s hard to function as an adult who knows things when you are activated into the past. Watching the info you taught in addition to how you were managing your triggering during the video was very powerful for me. Thank you for sharing both the info and how this works In real time for you. It really validated my experience as well. And I admire so much how brave you are.

[@CassieWinter]

This means so much to me to hear! Thank you so much 💖

[@Sweetshaunna]

Very excellently done! I was super triggered last night and I was doing the same things as you like being breathless. It was very validating and explained clearly. Thank you

[@anonymousperson4214]

This was probably a really rough video for almost everyone else, but it was almost euphoric for me because I had no idea that this even existed, and yet I think it is the biggest problem that I currently have and have been trying to figure out for years. So yeah, really Really helpful. Thank you so very much!

[@rocwilder85]

Thank you for this video. I’m a partner of someone who has CPTSD, and watching this helped me understand more of what my partner goes through. She had an emotional flashback when we were joking around and I had made an innocuous statement of how we both can be mean and she just shutdown. I thought we were just fooling around but then I knew she was very overwhelmed and for the next few days, she would tell me how she wasn’t feeling well. I felt incredibly sad/guilty that I made her feel that way. She did mention how she felt like a child all over again, feeling small and unheard. Since then we haven’t spoken. But watching this video helped educate me what she was going through and I hope one day I can be in her life again, where she can trust me and also work w/ her own trauma. Thank you!

[@scotchvelo]

Amazing video. Thank you. Here’s my problem: I’m so afraid of my emotional flashbacks that I constantly think about them…which then sends me right into one. It’s like a kind of OCD. The experience of the crushing despair that is the main feature of my flashbacks is so terrifying that I cannot stop thinking, “what if it happens now. What about NOW?” And then, duh, of course it happens. It’s just a self-perpetuating nightmare because I can’t get my brain to stop! Hope this makes some sense.

[@kaseyvandertol]

You’re really pretty and also nice makeup!! Thanks for this! Super helpful and validating

[@beexkat]

I just ended the video, I do not have a diagnosis so I was like "why am I getting so emotional suddenly? I am maybe faking it" but then you said that the viewers are probably also emotional now, thank you that helped me.

[@stovetopweevil]

21:28 The Fawn Response, amiright?!?!? HOW MANY relationships (intimate as well as professional) existed in my life PURELY based on my fawning response.

[@CassieWinter]

🤗🤗🤗

[@abbysworld05]

One of the things that got to me is when you said when your in an emotional flashback that you can’t work, for me I’m more quiet than I normally am, I’m still trying to figure out if I have emotional flashbacks cuz most of the time I’m just in denial, like I think I have them but then I’m like nah cuz I worry if anyone will believe me and I noticed that in certain ones I’m freaking out on if it’s going to happen again and it’s like I’m waiting for the ball to drop but in the same way, you wouldn’t know I’m freaking out cuz I look fine, and even when I’m freaking out about it, I can’t do anything about It, and I also noticed that when I talk about It I can’t do anything productive for the rest of the day, the one time I did do work I had to force myself and it sucked, but 99% of the time I’m just in my bed which is why when I have therapy I do It on days I don’t do anything that way it won’t matter if I just lay in bed for the rest of the day, and I noticed it’s more of lack of emotion than being emotional which I found out that emotional numbness is a sign of dissociation, which would make since if that is the case since I would say that when It was actually happening I was dissociative because I was quiet, most people who know me would probably have expected me to blow up but I was just not myself cuz I was quiet when normally I’m talkative, I was just there, I was talking a bit but not a lot cuz I was barely talking, so I would say my responses was fawn and freeze cuz I would try things to try to make It stop but was still quiet, and then eventually I just stopped trying and the traveling back in time too cuz it’s like I’m experiencing the emotions I felt back then even tho It makes no since with the situation like the fear of It happening again and feeling like if I say no that nobody will listen or care, I’m still trying to figure It out if I have emotional flashbacks but this video definitely helped with understanding emotional flashbacks, I think my main issue on why it’s hard to realize It apart from It being not visual but also cuz I don’t think anyone will believe me or call me a faker even tho I have no control over It and another hard part is that I’m constantly in denial cuz I don’t think people will believe me or care, I first started talking about what happened and how it’s effecting me near the end of my senior year cuz everything started coming back in my sophomore year of high school which is how I found out I have ptsd, which both suprised me and didn’t suprise me at the same time cuz I was suspicious about having It but at the same time I never thought It was possible for me cuz I didn’t think It was that bad and I never thought It would ever effect me cuz nothing else has cuz normally things don’t effect me but this effected me a lot and I never thought It was possible that It would effect me this much but here we are

[@shahilagh]

Yes I m with you comparison doesn’t work

[@meganleisey]

Also thank you for showing how you self soothe & take care of yourself when you start to feel activated ❤❤

[@nimbus4653]

im so glad your video came up when I googled emotional flashbacks. (I was curious if they could cause regression) I had just came out of one and immediately had an epiphany that I might be having a flashback so I googled it. I feel better now having realized what was actually going on so thank you!

[@CassieWinter]

So glad I could help 🤗❤

[@stovetopweevil]

Thank you so much for sharing this video. I know it was a challenge to be vulnerable and to acknowledge your successes. You're amazing.

[@CassieWinter]

Thank you so much Miranda 🤗

[@ronalddeem8154]

Thank you so much

[@carrielw831]

Thankyou much..this is so helpful

[@trudylawrence7909]

this has been excellent

[@kimlec3592]

Thank you. Truly.

[@krystal.castor]

Thank you so much for your videos ❤

[@alawton4427]

Thank you

[@LoveLoveStrong]

I felt this. Thank you for existing and surviving. Much love your way. 🙇🏾‍♀️

[@SterneSehen]

Thank you so much for this video. I saw how you were fighting to not get overwhelmed by what you were talking about, which made me fighting with my tears because I could relate so much to what you were telling. Thats exactly what I described to my therapist, but he didn't seem to understand what I meant. I really admire your courage to do a video about this. Lots of love and hugs from Switzerland.

[@CassieWinter]

❤️❤️❤️

[@mysiann]

Jeeeez do I feel you. The way you talk and breathe is exactly me after social situations of any kind. Like seeing someone on the street and I'm a MESS and the world is over. You are so so so so helpful. Thank you. I'm so sorry ton deal with this.

[@CassieWinter]

Big hugs! 💖

[@kimlec3592]

Young Cassie, your gift for honest & helpful sharing helps others. Thank you for your bravery.

[@eliseta4232]

thank you for sharing the knowledge and your personal experience with such clarity and honesty. btw your make up is gorgeous pd. i just bought the book after watching your video love, Elisa

[@janbeise]

❤ I’m very glad I found your channel. I will be back for more. You did awesome too btw especially when I noticed how it was difficult for to talk about your experiences. Beautiful cat also ❤

[@ruthshere9468]

thank you for sharing you knowledge and experiences with us.

[@CassieWinter]

You're welcome 🤗

[@melanimontemayor]

I loved you and the kitty ♥️ thank you for the information and for helping me soothe from this emotional flashback

[@CassieWinter]

You're welcome. Hope you're able to come out of your flashback sooner rather than later.

[@kenyacarson2462]

Wow that’s a lot ❤️ you’re right I’m exhausted after this

[@CassieWinter]

Were you able to rest some after watching?

[@kenyacarson2462]

@@CassieWinter I was indeed thank you so much for sharing

[@meganleisey]

Thank you so much for talking about this ❤ it is such a wild feeling to feel like a tiny child again. I have kids and I would just feel panic like I’m 5 years old how do I have my own kids and it was so overwhelming.

[@lawofattraction7651]

Thank you for your vulnerability and sharing! Greatly appreciated! Greetings from Bulgaria

[@CassieWinter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@oliviaswann4686]

I prefer Bessel's book because he addresses both adult and child trauma. Pete Walker's book got binned because he only spoke about childhood trauma. Everyone who knows about narcissistic abuse syndrome knows it has symptoms from cptsd and I went through things from 24-27 that caused that.

[@mayhemmacy1566]

Thank you; you are your kitty are beautiful.

[@CassieWinter]

Thank you! And Kayla says thank you, too 💖

[@rain7bow437]

Thanks so much for this Im really struggling just now. Im 43 but feel as if um seven years old again and no one is coming to help me. I don't know how to function 😢 Ill give that book a read. Thanks for your videos x

[@CassieWinter]

Bigs hugs 💖

[@MonicaGunderson]

Thank You 💗 You are strong, and appreciate you sharing this. I am a child abuse survivor, and been through other hard moments through life (in my mid-40's). Discovered I have a super painful autoimmune disease, and immunocompromised during 2019.... Then the pandemic happened... Being immunocompromised means I am high risk of covid. Friends and in-law family alike disbelieved or doubted my disability, and being immunocompromised (which did not help my C-PTSD).... Since 2020 through current, I have been having emotional flashbacks again. Looking inside myself, my past young selves told me they just want to feel safe, heard, not abandoned or alienated. My parents divorced when I was 5 years old. I was in a Catholic church. Since divorce was so taboo in the Catholic church, attended private Catholic school.... My friends stopped being my friends. Many began to bully me. There are several other times through my lifetime, I felt or went through periods of deep dread of abandonment. Being immunocompromised in Central California (rural) and being high risk due to being immunocompromised, Autoimmune Disease plus 5 other health issues.... It is hard to feel "safe" sometimes. I have had to walk away and end friendships, some walked away from me because they couldn't handle having to be so safe (due to my health, being immunocompromised) around me during a pandemic (aka they didn't like my boundaries). I have had to reevaluate friendships, it has been difficult. Working on myself, loving myself. I am worthy. I am not expendable. My life is important too.

[@MonicaGunderson]

BTW..... Have you ever texted someone horrible things or word vomit text them horrible things during or after emotional flashbacks..... Asking for a friend..... 🥺👉👈

[@CassieWinter]

Hugs ❤️🤗❤️🤗 As I’m a freeze/fawn type, I tend to withdraw when triggered and don’t lash out. I have to really be pushed to get to that place. (You might want to look into ‘reactive abuse.’ It was a really helpful eye opener for me as it shows that sometimes lashing out is NOT our fault.) If you have a tendency to say horrible things or word vomiting when in a flashback, you might be a fight/flight type. If you haven’t read Pete Walker’s book already, I highly recommend it.

[@MonicaGunderson]

@@CassieWinter sometimes, I feel like I cycle through most of them, flight, fight, freeze, fawn.... Thank You, I will definitely look into that. ❤️🤗

[@michellewilkie4387]

I have D I D and this so resonates. With me I’ve been stuck in these states nearly year

[@CassieWinter]

🤗🤗🤗

[@TheDoriette]

I have dreams too, that will trigger emotional bad memories.

[@oliviaswann4686]

Ah yeah I can relate. I had interpersonal abuse as an adult after university and it still affects me in a similar way to childhood abuse affected you. I understand it all and have experienced most of it. I'm having therapy

[@zhymi2144]

Thanks a lot for your work, I didn't knee about emotional flashback but your video helped me understand and somehow gain my power back. Do you have some knowledge or resources on being re-traumatized? If it's not too triggering for you course. Thanks again, take care!

[@CassieWinter]

You're so thoughtful and kind 💖 Unfortunately I don't have any resources on re-traumatization specifically, but you can learn about all the trauma books I recommend in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3fbnJZtYpl4pcU

[@persevere6326]

“ you time traveled “ “ you are not making this up” I thought I lost my mind when this happened. Thanks for posting Question Have your tried EMDR?

[@CassieWinter]

You're welcome, and thank you for watching! 😊 Yes, I have tried EMDR. The version where I looked at my therapist's fingers moving back and forth didn't work for me, BUT the version where I hold paddles that vibrate worked wonders. It's been amazing!

[@HanaEleHH]

God you're courageous

[@CassieWinter]

Thank you 😊

[@alllifematters]

I was doing alot better in my life before I moved back to the town that I grew up in. I hated this town when I was a kid and it's still a horrible town! Even if I didn't have cptsd, it's still a horrible place filled with bigots, and narcissistic oppressive low quality people who live on this world of hierarchy and there is alot of unconscious bias here against anyone who is different from the one type of person they are used to .. It's been hard. Environment is everything for people with trauma. We can create our environment to either support or hinder us, and living in a community surrounded by people whose values and goals are different from your own will make life alot more difficult unnecessarily. I am truly in hell on a daily basis. The first year was not do bad, but pretty shortly after that I started feeling triggered everyday, sometimes I wake up in a triggered state. I'm surrounded by a community of abusers. I try to do self care and it's a struggle ... I'm trying to get myself out of here but now that I've been here for so long, my will is severely challenged as it's hard to go outside anymore.. everything is a challenge. But that's ok, I know that once I'm out life will be down hill from here! Stay away from narcissists! Just say NO!

[@derblauestein]

Hey there, I started to have extremely intense emotional flashbacks in late 2021 and when i newly had them, they were there for a few hours and then dissapeared and i had my true self back again. But lately they got worse and worse and while at the beginning i had my authentic self and sometimes emotional flashbacks, i now live completely in Regression and rarely get to feel my adult self again for a few seconds. Its really frustrating but it helped me that you explained it can merge into this week-long regression which is what i experience exactly. Im in this Survival-Regression stadium for over a month now without much break. Do any of you know this feeling? I would be so gratefull to hear from your experiences and maybe you can tell me how you solve your regression.

[@CassieWinter]

Thank you for sharing. Long-term flashbacks can be so, so difficult. The thing I recommend most is finding a trauma informed therapist who specializes in a variety of trauma healing modalities (for example: EMDR and somatic experiencing). Keep in mind that therapists who are not trauma informed are likely to re-traumatize you, which is more than counterproductive. Is seeking a therapist something that is accessible for you right now?

[@derblauestein]

@@CassieWinter Yes i am currently starting trauma therapy but the problem ist that the therapy sessions are like once every two weeks and sadly my mental state declines more than the sessions pace can heal :/ thats why i started doing self help via videos like this

[@Polina-hn7hu]

@@derblauestein your body must feel now that it is safe, so all the energy from stress responses that got stored in your body over the years is now being released. Try Benjamin Fry "Invisible Lion" , thats his book where hes written about the mechanics of a stress response cycle and how to process what he calls the "survival energy", very easy language to understand. He has a utube chanell too. Also look into heavening technique, something u can do at home. EMDR i hear doesnt help many, but somatic experiencing is very good. All the issues are in the tissues. You need to work with your body. You body communicates to you via the mind, once the body feels safe the mind settles.

[@SarahElise-so3sy]

What if your thoughts are what's triggering you? And your brain in stuck in survival mode. You cannot think your way out. The only thing that has worked for me, is having a freezing cold shower, or intense exercise. Nothing else seems to work and I've given up alcohol, coz that would be the death of me. Any advice?

[@CassieWinter]

Thank you for sharing Sarah. What you're describing sounds like a common aspect of flashbacks and emotional flashbacks, which is that they trigger an sympathetic nervous response - either sending us into fight/flight or fawn/freeze. In these situations, the prefrontal cortex is shut down and it's impossible to think our way out of it. Addressing the body and the autonomic nervous system directly through somatic approaches is the way to go, which is why a cold shower or intense exercise helps you. Intense cold helps shift the body into rest and digest, and intense exercise helps the body feel like it's "successfully run away from the tiger" as it were. So my suggestion is to experiment with more body-based approaches to managing triggers. If you haven't watched my Polyvagal Ladder video yet, that might be a helpful thing for you to start exploring next. Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4WYeZ93o5imhpI

[@genwords1789]

I Just You.

[@carolyntarrant8302]

And there's the 'freeze' response which I think you should possibly know about?

[@CassieWinter]

Yup! I talk about that more in my Polyvagal Theory video. 😊 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4WYeZ93o5imhpI

[@twistedxvengeance]

I'm 5'2" I'm always small😅🥹

[@CassieWinter]

🤣🤣🤣 I'm 5'11" and would give you the best of bear hugs. 💖

[@mjcjjcc7]

can let for weeks

[@user-zu4wr1zu5v]

I also have a question...when my trauma is reactivated, I lose weight and I have reached 42 kg. Can you confirm if the body loses weight to reflect the state of a child without strength?

[@CassieWinter]

I don't believe that's correct. Regardless, it's important to get medical help for that much weight loss. I hope you have access to a doctor or therapist who can help you. Big hugs 💖

[@user-zu4wr1zu5v]

@@CassieWinter I hâd just 48, and now 42. I mean, I always have been skinny.

[@rosieleat6868]

there's no sound

[@uplbdevcom]

Excuse me, but why don’t you calm down and compose yourself before doing a video? It looks like you are talking about emotional flashbacks while experiencing one yourself. I would never ever trust you as a helper or healer of some sort, you need a lot of help yourself and it is preposterous to try to SELL your “services” to others, just a scam. Which are your qualifications, by the way ? Never going to watch you again.

[@CassieWinter]

This kind of unwarranted hatred is not welcome in my community. The only reason I have not deleted this comment is so my viewers can see my response. Empathy is a fundamental part of my coaching, and I will not apologize for my behavior in this video, or any other. There is absolutely nothing wrong with how I presented myself, and to suggest otherwise is deeply harmful - not only to myself, but also to those I help. I cannot tell you how many times my viewers and clients have thanked me for my honesty and vulnerability. Furthermore, I have never claimed to be a licensed therapist. I am a holistic productivity and life coach. My services do not replace therapy; instead, they supplement therapy. I regularly recommend trauma-informed therapy to my viewers and clients, and many of my coaching clients already have a therapist they see regularly. My work complements therapy in a way that has been needed for a long time, and I wish I had had access to something similar when I was in my darkest place. This is my entire reason for doing what I do. To My Dear Muses: If you have ever been hurt by someone like this before, I see you. You're not alone. You're safe here.

[@kimlec3592]

@ uplbdevcom : there are many resources for healing. please write privately your feelings of hate. it is ok to show vulnerability. this may be what you were punished for. Keeping you in prayer.

[@lidiapola4545]

@@kimlec3592 I just think this lady is highly unqualified for "healing" anything, let alone PTSD - she is making money out of her performances online followed by the gullible and needy - my duty to signal it - my advice: go to real professionals to get helped if you suffer from this kind of ailments