Im sorry, that sounds very difficult and painful.

I don’t know how to explain it well, but this happens to me, too. Discussing trauma in therapy can take me right back to the traumas and intense feelings. Afterward, I feel depressed, agitated and can think of new aspects of the trauma(s) and even new questions I have about them since sometimes I’m seeing the traumatic events from a different perspective.

It’s like grief- Kubler-Ross wrote of the stages of grief. But there is no order to the stages and we may go through similar stages several times before we reach a resolution.

I think trauma memories/feelings/details behave in a similar way. They take you *back there.* again.