lostforgottensoul
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I seem to be triggered over all of it. The whole election but more Trump than anyone. When i even hear his voice, I start to shake and cower inside. He reminds me so much of my step dad. A big and powerful bad guy. My step dad was a psycopath but still.
But the fighting here over it all is also making me back away. It just seems so, I don't know, angry or something.
I wanted to start a thread about being triggered over the entire election, not just Trump, but I was afraid that it would spark another mudslinging debate and that is what I'm trying to stay away from and what triggers me so I didn't start one.
For me, I've stayed away from it all. Away from the media, away from reading about it (how i started to try to become educated on the canadates), away from any convo about it, and away from the threads here discussing it. I find my exit fast when it starts up.
If you feel you need to keep going each week until this is over then do so. But if, before this, you were doing better to cut appointments down then you deployed learned tools. Like self soothing and distracting and other tools, right? I'd deploy those tools in high gear now. Maybe read the DBT workbook or brush up on DBT distress tolerance. It helps. Maybe some grounding tools.
Id use the tools you learned in therapy more often until this is over. You know?
