It took me a long time to realize my body memories were flashbacks.. I knew that I didn't feel right certain times but I didn't know that was what it was, a flashback either until I really started to open myself up and talk to my psychiatrist about it. The she reccomended me to read the Body Remebers that is about body memory, triggers, etc... and that helped me to understand it and by reading that and trauma and recovery I could relate to it. At least now there was a name to what I was feeling.

I agree, the chances of only getting one trigger when dealing with a trauma is rare, there's almost always a few that cause the triggers if not a whole bunch of stuff.

I think that abuse related traumas and say a car accident trauma and PTSD people do get differnt triggers. A trigger for me when I Was in a car accident was that I would panic everytime I Went throught that intersection.. I'd close my eyes or I could get through that happened for about a month or so, and was terrible. I didn't think the accident affected me like that.

Triggers from the abuse for me was the word rape because I was threatened by it many times, and had to submit to it because I was so scared of him... and another major trigger for me was grabbing the back of my neck or just squeezing it because he always use to do that to me when he was angry.

Different things like that.

Still not fun...

I'm glad that i'm not suffering from my ptsd anyone, 8 years of it, now I have a freedom.

I'm still weary of others, but that is a postive thing to be aware because I know which people 'aren't all there' and can stay clear of them.

I still get triggers from time to time, I probably always will but now they aren't as scary as they use to be.
I just got to remind myself hat i'm ok, that i'm safe....

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