Any littles experienced extreme fear while in little space or a PTSD flashback?

[Guest Little_Miss]

Hi, just wondering if any littles have experienced extreme fear when in little space or if you have experienced a flashback while in little space? Particularly if you mentally age regress. 

 

Ages ago when I was regressed and in little space I experienced extreme fear and found it very terrible and it was very hard to pull myself out of that state while I was regressed. I found myself scared and rocking myself. Since then I have avoided regressing as much as I am scared something like that will happen again without having a caregiver to take care of me...and worried I might accidentally traumatize my little side...

 

Interested to know if anyone has experienced something like this and how they deal with it or what happened to them..

Edited November 23, 2016 by Little_Miss

[ziva vlad's kitten]

Unfortunately, this is definitely a risk with regression. I'm so sorry to hear this happened to you. I have not experienced it personally, only second hand. My husband and I tried switching early in our relationship. He has PTSD. He was able to regress but it was very traumatic for him. It was while we were long distance so I couldn't help him much from so far way. He has made a point never to regress since then, and he is going to therapy now for his PTSD.

Something I'm not sure if a lot of littles realize is that most people can regress. The first time I regressed was before I was even in a relationship. I was with a counselor that knew about regression. She is the one that warned me that it can bring up past traumas and encouraged me not to regress alone, but she said it was okay to do with trusted friends. Because of that, I waited until I felt very safe in my relationship before I allowed myself regress. Some people will use regression to create new, healing memories of their childhood to help them cope with past traumas.

I looked for articles about this to share with you but almost everything on the subject seems to be about hypnotherapy, and that's not quite what I'm talking about.

Can you be a little without regression? Do you have a friend, it doesn't have to be a partner or even a mommy or daddy, that you have trusted enough to talk about your past with? Perhaps you could try regressing with a friend so there will be someone there to comfort and encourage you if it doesn't go well.

Best wishes.

[Guest Little_Miss]

Unfortunately, this is definitely a risk with regression. I'm so sorry to hear this happened to you. I have not experienced it personally, only second hand. My husband and I tried switching early in our relationship. He has PTSD. He was able to regress but it was very traumatic for him. It was while we were long distance so I couldn't help him much from so far way. He has made a point never to regress since then, and he is going to therapy now for his PTSD.

Something I'm not sure if a lot of littles realize is that most people can regress. The first time I regressed was before I was even in a relationship. I was with a counselor that knew about regression. She is the one that warned me that it can bring up past traumas and encouraged me not to regress alone, but she said it was okay to do with trusted friends. Because of that, I waited until I felt very safe in my relationship before I allowed myself regress. Some people will use regression to create new, healing memories of their childhood to help them cope with past traumas.

I looked for articles about this to share with you but almost everything on the subject seems to be about hypnotherapy, and that's not quite what I'm talking about.

Can you be a little without regression? Do you have a friend, it doesn't have to be a partner or even a mommy or daddy, that you have trusted enough to talk about your past with? Perhaps you could try regressing with a friend so there will be someone there to comfort and encourage you if it doesn't go well.

Best wishes.

I am not sure if what I experienced was a flashback or not and if it was it was purely emotional. It was actually after seeing images of clowns in my colouring books I had and I tried getting away from the image but it ended up being in like 3 of my colouring books I had got. In my past I had an issue with clowns and now as an adult I do not like them. I am not sure if the clowns represented some kind of trauma or just the simple fact that I do not like clowns and when I am little I really really don't like clowns. Bit embarrassing to admit but it did cause me a terrible reaction. Afterwards I pasted paper over the clowns pictures and wrote "no clowns allowed'' to make my little side feel better but not when I was very regressed :3 I naturally tend to mentally regress but have purposely avoided letting myself get too regressed as I am worried I will get terrified over something. I like my little side to explore new and positive memories.  Sadly I don't have any friends or anything to do this with either. 

[Harley_Quinn]

At one point while in little space I was being very bratty so daddy went to spank me (it was a typical punishment for me no big deal) but I went into a flash back of my ex boyfriend and I started to hit and kick daddy... He almost left me after that. I didn't mean to hurt him...

[Guest Little_Miss]

At one point while in little space I was being very bratty so daddy went to spank me (it was a typical punishment for me no big deal) but I went into a flash back of my ex boyfriend and I started to hit and kick daddy... He almost left me after that. I didn't mean to hurt him...

Aww sorry that happened to you. Were you scared to be in little space after that? I found it extra hard to come back to the present when I was already regressed. 

[Harley_Quinn]

Aww sorry that happened to you. Were you scared to be in little space after that? I found it extra hard to come back to the present when I was already regressed.

Not scared to be in little space but we need a new punishment

[Guest Little_Miss]

Not scared to be in little space but we need a new punishment

That's fair enough