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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
You actually answered your own question in your first post. What triggers you is "feeling powerless", and you do remember the experiences you had in your history where you were powerless when it came to how your father treated you.
That is what every single trigger and flashback I experience has in them. My being in a "powerless" position. These drunks can be triggering because when someone is drunk you never know how they will behave when you tell them to stop doing something. Some drunks can get extremely mean and act out like your father did with you when you were younger.
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Right, I think there must be something about either certain people or certain situations that triggers a feeling of being powerless. Although, I still don't understand why it happens sometimes and not others.
More importantly, how do I stop freezing up? I mean, I know logically that I'm not a kid anymore, that I can handle myself, and that freezing up is only going to make it worse. The best solution I can think of is to put myself in situations where I need to confront someone in order to trigger that feeling, and then relearn how to deal with it appropriately.
So, like, bar hopping? Gonna be getting into some bar fights. For therapy.
