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Old Jul 29, 2010, 09:35 AM
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What I think works for you is sharing with other people who truly understand on here!
Yeah, I have never met a group of people before who just "get it" the way most here do.

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If you were going for therapy you need a very calm intelligent therapist. The first year will need to be introducing real good coping strats so that you can cope with the heavy stuff. You can't deal with triggers until you know how to calm yourself. You'll note that I said for YOU to calm yourself. That's what coping stratergies do. Eventually you won't need coping stratergies so much because you'll no longer get triggered. Once you've got those coping strats (your tool box) that's when the therapist will start to go through the heavy stuff with you.
Yeah, I have developed some coping strategies over time, just observing what is happening, what works, what doesn't. But it's quite hard, because what works seems to go right against what seems like the correct thing to do, which is panic, or try to force someone to pay attention, or the like!
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Thanks for this!
pegasus