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anthony
Founder
Veiled, trigger exposure is something that is up to you to be quite honest. Offcourse exposing yourself to triggers is going to cause more, that is the intention behind exposure therapy in general, to get everything out, instead of wondering around knowing one thing, but not the entire package of problems. If we don't know what we have to fix, how can we prepare ourselves to fix it?
I honestly disagree with your therapists viewpoint on trigger exposure; although the decision is yours, and yours alone to make. All I would say, and have said to you all along, is know and understand what you are doing, and what comes across you in relation to new memories, triggers and so forth. Expose yourself enough to hurt, then retreat and rest. Expose to hurt, then retreat and rest, except this time the consequences should be less. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat... If anything new pops up, you acknowledge it, don't ignore it, take notes on it if need be, put it in the back of your mind for processing later, then continue the trigger your after. Once you deal with one, if another 10 have arisen, pick one and go at it. Repeat process. This is the exact means to finding everything.
Even once you are done, your going to be in a shop or public place one day, something will occur, not if, will... and this will trigger you. You must then cope with it, process, analyse and deal with it appropriately. This is the idea of it all. If your getting very run down though, then as I do say, rest, recuperate, then go trigger hunting. It could be a week or two between hitting a trigger over and over, which means it could take months to do one. As you become more conditioned, you will find yourself doing several at once, getting to a more daily or every two days interval, and really smashing them through.
What I would say, is that if YOU feel you have it to continue, then I would continue personally regardless what your therapist says. Your therapist is not the one dealing day to day with this, you are.
I honestly disagree with your therapists viewpoint on trigger exposure; although the decision is yours, and yours alone to make. All I would say, and have said to you all along, is know and understand what you are doing, and what comes across you in relation to new memories, triggers and so forth. Expose yourself enough to hurt, then retreat and rest. Expose to hurt, then retreat and rest, except this time the consequences should be less. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat... If anything new pops up, you acknowledge it, don't ignore it, take notes on it if need be, put it in the back of your mind for processing later, then continue the trigger your after. Once you deal with one, if another 10 have arisen, pick one and go at it. Repeat process. This is the exact means to finding everything.
Even once you are done, your going to be in a shop or public place one day, something will occur, not if, will... and this will trigger you. You must then cope with it, process, analyse and deal with it appropriately. This is the idea of it all. If your getting very run down though, then as I do say, rest, recuperate, then go trigger hunting. It could be a week or two between hitting a trigger over and over, which means it could take months to do one. As you become more conditioned, you will find yourself doing several at once, getting to a more daily or every two days interval, and really smashing them through.
What I would say, is that if YOU feel you have it to continue, then I would continue personally regardless what your therapist says. Your therapist is not the one dealing day to day with this, you are.
