Hi Kitcatz,

Well, I dont understand everything, she has your daughter with her?

Anyway, sorry to hear you have just started with a therapist and are a long way from addressing this PTSD situation regarding your mother, can you schedule more appointments, perhaps even extra long appointments?
You say you have over a month to stress about it, maybe you could use whatever time there is to work on it, even if it is expensive, it could help alot in planning strategies of how to fight the different ways she triggers you.

Now as far as the triggers are concerned, you should have a journal and write down what you now know about her that triggers you. Because you have a month to figure out the whys about those triggers and how you can deflate them. Because your right, you are no longer 14 or younger and the only one that can allow her to put you there is YOU.

It is not about stressing, it is about learning how to control YOUR REACTIONS TO HER. The good thing is that at you know what a trigger is and through therapy you will figure out the woman behind that mask and that will help you imensely. Many of her behaviors are learned and even handed down and even caused by her own issues. So knowing the woman verses just the mother that obviously did not treat you well will help.

You can PM me if you want, ease up
Open Eyes, ps, I have trigger people too in my life so I understand.