Posted by Pfinstegg on October 31, 2004, at 16:53:37
In reply to Memories *could be a trigger, about dead people*, posted by littleone on October 31, 2004, at 16:35:20
I'm so glad some of the posting has been helpful, and hope you will become an active poster yourself. What you wrote was very interesting. It's a hard subject: some people know from the beginning that they are holding off thinking about traumatic things in their pasts; others, more like you and me,, have a *feeling* that something happened, but don't know. I think your therapist is so right- the most important things just pop right out of our unconscious minds when we least expect it. That has happened to me several times during 20 months of therapy, and has helped tremendously each time. Usually, a lot of emotional distress will precede those sudden *eruptions*, and it's a tremendous relief to actually talk to someone (a therapist) about them for the first time. And sometimes the memories are not so much of a specific abusive act, but of what it felt like to feel terrified and alone, at,say, age 6. The sharing of it, when you are ready, is so powerful and healing.
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