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Old Jun 07, 2017, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Crypts_Of_The_Mind View Post
. . Triggers are not emotions. Triggers are things that bring you back to an event that traumatized you and cause you to reexperience it in some way.
Thank you so much for this!! There's a lot of talk amongst adults working with kids these days about the misuse of the word in young(er) circles.

There are times in parenting where I flash to a painful memory of my own youth. In a way that I find some semblence of healing that old wound with new perspective. I wouldn't call it a trigger as in I don't have a flight/fight response nor one of freezing like a deer in headlights, but just wanted to thank you for what you wrote.
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Thanks for this!
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