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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friday" data-source="post: 1756377" data-attributes="member: 27208">Things that are only triggers? Are pretty damn easy for me to eliminate, entirely.Things that are stressful? Are about management.Both create the same symptomatic responses, but the source is different, so dealing with them is unsurprisingly also different.***Being with my family means I’m eyeballs deep in triggers and stressors. Even though -arguably- none of them are PART of my trauma history. Which would only serve to make things even more volatileSo…. Even if I sort every trigger commonly associated with them? My symptoms are still gonna be zoooooom!!! off like a prom dress!!! …just because of stress cup stuff. <<< I had this all well in hand for a decade, as my whole durn life was built around exquisite stress management, and compartmentalising is something I’m (usually) wicked good at. Once I lost the ability to manage my stress (my stress cup became what happens when you add mentos to Coke); whilst my compartments busted wide open? (I’ve seen buildings flattened by earthquakes and hurricanes with more sense of order to them) … I’ve gone from “I love my family, but they drive me insane, so I have to do it in measured doses.” -to- “I can’t deal with my family, and not lose my shit, full stop.”</blockquote>