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Old Nov 17, 2017, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ruh roh View Post
Informal poll:

Does anyone ever feel blamed when a therapist handles a reaction to an event as a trigger, as opposed to treating it as though it was a crappy situation that any reasonable person would be upset by?

I realize now that I can see what I wrote that I would probably be equally pissed by the later because it would feel like that normalizing thing therapists do, and risk feeling dismissed.

I guess I cannot be pleased in this matter.
I think what would bug me is the use of the word 'trigger'.

Else, even if it was discussed as something trigger-y but without actually using the word trigger, I'd be totally down with that.

I am weird about words that way though.

Oh, and in terms of therapists trying to say that it's a reasonable response blah blah -- that s h i t drives me up.the.wall.

Current T for some reason seems to think that using herself as an example (so, she'd say "I'd have done / felt the same") is supposed to help me although I have no idea why.
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