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What I am saying is that I really thought I had worked through the feelings of fear and anxiety I had once felt by being yelled at, chased, hit and degraded in front of family and friends. Now, I'm wondering if I really ever did work through it all or if this was just a quick response to a specific stimuli from the past and I'll always have that kind of reaction?

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Yes. It's amazing what our minds do for us, and what our minds can do TO us. Even if you work through things in therapy... I don't know if we can ever get back to the previous point where we weren't suffering because of someone else's actions. I don't know if you can undo the damage that is done emotionally to yourself. Maybe it is possible, and I pray it is because everyone deserves healing (and nobody deserves to be treated unfairly in any way) ... but I still think a startle reflex where you're drawn temporarily back into the past is fairly normal.



(PS. I can honestly say that I've reacted badly to present situations and events because they triggered memories of past events... and this is a really poor example because it's not that traumatizing... but I was hit on last week. By a guy in his 50s or 60s. I'm 22. He reminded me of my stepdad, which is NOT good. I freak out, and apparently I didn't know what was bothering me so much until I examined the situation later in my mind. Needless to say, totallllllly ruined my night because I was a triggered mess).