Posted by emmanuel98 on November 24, 2009, at 23:26:22
In reply to Feeling Hopeless, posted by catlady on November 24, 2009, at 23:03:14
It's only a couple of weeks since you felt triggered again. It will pass. You've been stong enough to make it through so far and can find the strength to go on.
This happened to me a lot over five years of therapy. It still happens. But I tell myself I've gotten through before and will again. My therapist says to say to myself, this is just trauma.
> I am just wondering if anyone has felt like they had reached a point of acceptance about certain things after a lot of therapy, and realized they hadn't and if it is normal to feel like you have taken steps backwards.
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> This is how I am feeling. I have been in therapy for years, thought I worked through some sexual abuse trauma in my life and had some acceptance about it. Over the last couple of weeks I go triggered by something, now I feel like I am back going through the grief process and feeling a lot of despair about my life.
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> Starting to wonder if you ever get over something like that.
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> Anybody who has any ideas please write.
> Thanks
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