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Old Sep 21, 2016, 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Trace14 View Post
I don't think we can escape the triggers until we take the power away from the memories. Once the memories don't have that control then the triggers should ease up. But how do you take away the power from so many different trauma memories? We will never not have the memories, and yet we have good memories that are triggered in a good way. Like the smell of fresh snow, the smell of puppy breath, those can trigger some good memories for me.
So triggers and memories will be around forever. And since it's not always known what will trigger what , we would need to work on those bad memories and take away that power that makes them so bad. Does this make sense?
T and I ate trying that with emdr around some of it. I'm just not sure how much I can do. Sometimes the memories and flashbacks send me to a really dark place. When they don't, we work on them. When I start to fall into the darker stuff, then we do other things around it all.
I wish good memories were triggered as easily for me as the bad ones are...
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