How do you move past triggers that are so big that they turn your life upside down?
I feel like I am getting swallowed by my traumas right now. I was managing pretty well and then an incident that involved police happened at the house where I had both childhood traumas and then the biggest trauma that involved my kids. Just seeing the police at the house triggered me so bad that everything I have ever gone through is looping through my head. It is unbearable right now. The big trauma was 10 years ago, I thought I was past it to the point that I could comfortably move on with my life. For a few years now, I have been able to go to the house with not triggers at all.
It has been 6 weeks. I had to take a leave from work. I still don't have my eating/sleeping back on track. I am struggling to get things done. I started seeing my T biweekly again. We will be doing EMDR soon.
Have you experienced a big trigger like this? How did you work past it? Is it more helpful to lean into it and allow the feelings to come up and work on moving past them? Or is it better to us distraction?
Right now I am just working on trying to be present. I am catching myself drifting off to nowhere and bringing myself back.
I feel like I am getting swallowed by my traumas right now. I was managing pretty well and then an incident that involved police happened at the house where I had both childhood traumas and then the biggest trauma that involved my kids. Just seeing the police at the house triggered me so bad that everything I have ever gone through is looping through my head. It is unbearable right now. The big trauma was 10 years ago, I thought I was past it to the point that I could comfortably move on with my life. For a few years now, I have been able to go to the house with not triggers at all.
It has been 6 weeks. I had to take a leave from work. I still don't have my eating/sleeping back on track. I am struggling to get things done. I started seeing my T biweekly again. We will be doing EMDR soon.
Have you experienced a big trigger like this? How did you work past it? Is it more helpful to lean into it and allow the feelings to come up and work on moving past them? Or is it better to us distraction?
Right now I am just working on trying to be present. I am catching myself drifting off to nowhere and bringing myself back.