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Originally Posted by searchingmysoul
To answer your question- I purposely conjured up a memory of a trauma while doing something that is an everyday experience. Now I have created an association by this activity to the trauma memory thereby making an aversion to the activity. I guess by doing this I made the activity a trigger? So by emotional SI I mean I hurt myself emotionally in this way and it is continuing to be an issue because of the association which creates an emotional response.
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To be honest, it sounds like in therapy you must be working on exposure and you must be working really hard - maybe even too hard or to quickly. Talk to your therapist about this - it will be a helpful conversation.