Triggers : Removal Or Management?

[anthony]

So how do you do this by yourself?

Teach yourself things like DBT: Dead Link Removed and relaxation methods: Dead Link Removed

I have both books and can attest to their validity of usefulness. Learn what therapists learn, so you aren't getting second hand knowledge, instead, you're learning what they learn to teach you with... so learn it yourself and teach yourself. You know what works for you better than anyone else.

 

[anthony]

How's that?

I wouldn't be using prolonged exposure to address triggers in the stabilise phases. CBT type skills are often far better, as you have to understand why you think a certain way, which causes you to react another way versus desensitise yourself and defragment your historical trauma.

The stabilisation phase (everything before going near your trauma) does not require trauma therapies, but more therapies based on cognitive and behavioural reasoning.

Triggers themselves, you tackle with exposure therapy, not PE, but what is called in-vivo, being situational exposure. You also combine it with CBT as well, as there is a cognitive and behavioural component to tackling most triggers.