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Dysregulation
Why do I actively seek things out that are triggering??
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<blockquote data-quote="barefoot" data-source="post: 1751093" data-attributes="member: 28598"><p>Revisiting this thread so thanks again to everyone who has replied at any point.</p><p></p><p>Saw my family at the weekend and it triggered a lot of stress, distress and upset for me. In therapy afterwards, I talked at my T for an hour telling her everything that had happened. Thinking on it now, I think a few times she tried to bring it back to what feelings are being triggered but I was just on a roll needing to blurt everything out. We ran out of time and, afterwards, I felt even more heightened.</p><p></p><p>I’m finding it difficult to manage my feelings about the current family-related situations. Feel in a perpetual state of distress.</p><p></p><p>Started looking up NXIVM stuff again because one of them has just been sentenced. I’ve had her sentencing date in my diary for a few weeks so I wouldn’t miss it <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" /></p><p></p><p>Anyway…this below is a good reminder and I’ll endeavour to use this to help frame my next session. The here and now situation is stressful and upsetting, but also out of my control - so it’s unsurprising that it has affected me. However, the here and now stuff is also triggering historical stuff that took me to therapy in the first place. Since I cannot resolve the here and now shit, I am probably better off trying to get under the surface of what else it is triggering and try to work on/process that instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barefoot, post: 1751093, member: 28598"] Revisiting this thread so thanks again to everyone who has replied at any point. Saw my family at the weekend and it triggered a lot of stress, distress and upset for me. In therapy afterwards, I talked at my T for an hour telling her everything that had happened. Thinking on it now, I think a few times she tried to bring it back to what feelings are being triggered but I was just on a roll needing to blurt everything out. We ran out of time and, afterwards, I felt even more heightened. I’m finding it difficult to manage my feelings about the current family-related situations. Feel in a perpetual state of distress. Started looking up NXIVM stuff again because one of them has just been sentenced. I’ve had her sentencing date in my diary for a few weeks so I wouldn’t miss it 🙄 Anyway…this below is a good reminder and I’ll endeavour to use this to help frame my next session. The here and now situation is stressful and upsetting, but also out of my control - so it’s unsurprising that it has affected me. However, the here and now stuff is also triggering historical stuff that took me to therapy in the first place. Since I cannot resolve the here and now shit, I am probably better off trying to get under the surface of what else it is triggering and try to work on/process that instead. [/QUOTE]
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