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When I was nine, they found a tumor on my liver, it really messed me up a lot. I thought I was going to die I was puking all the time I was hooked up to IVs, the doctors were sure it was cancer, but it wasn't, and they removed it and I healed very slowly, but I never really got better. I'm 18 now. Sometimes I can smell the IV fluid out of nowhere and I'm sure this is all just a dream, and that I'm still in the hospital bed somewhere grasping onto life. And I don't know how to handle it when I get these flashbacks well I can see the hospital bed and I can feel the fear and the pain, and it's so real. I don't even know what I'm trying to ask you, maybe for advice on how to get over it. It's just very difficult.
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I'm sorry you are struggling with these difficult memories. Here are links to 2 articles, from Psych Central's archives, on the subject of flashbacks that (hopefully) can be of some help:

Why Do Flashbacks Happen? | After Trauma

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What has helped me....when I can do it!!...is to tell myself that that was scary but I am not in any danger now. I was little then. Now I am an adult and in charge. Getting to believe myself more and more. Take care of yourself.
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EMDR therapy has helped me a lot, for dealing with those kind of memories / flashbacks. There are many different types of therapy that can help with them; EMDR just happens to be what I am doing. I also do what cavaliers suggested, and that helps me too.

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