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Originally Posted by Have Hope
What I do when I have triggers occur is to shift my focus. I acknowledge the trigger, allow the feelings that result from the trigger to arise and exist, then I shift my focus either back to what I was doing or shift my focus entirely and take a break - like I may get up and stop what I was doing to clean the kitchen, take the trash out or do something active until the emotional impact of the trigger passes. Then I go about my business and my day. I think often times there's no fully escaping triggers, but we can manage our reactions to them and control how we respond to them. Not sure if that helps you any.
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Thanks for your tips. An issue for me is that if I try and block out the memories by getting active then I will get very angry/raging instead of being negative just inside my own mind. This assumes I was able to get active in the first place, which I feel is still the better option, but is just exhausting too. It takes a long time (years) for all this to become less intense, it seems. It is funny because it just feels like, I ignored the negatives until they traumatised me, and now my mind forces me to see and feel them and there's a LOAD to process, though maybe I've processed most of it by now...just I made my life worse (in some ways) in the meantime over these years so I have to undo that too.