I went over to have dinner with my parents and the family member who traumatized me was there, did a surprise drop in. He's not scary or threatening at all now, but seeing him retraumatizes me every. time. And it being unexpected made it even worse. I made an excuse to leave to run an errand within ten minutes, and then he left, but it messed me up.

T just met with me again the other day to help me out of crisis mode. I was just starting to recover from Christmas.