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All About Trauma with MaryCatherine McDonald

How To Human with Sam Lamott

CHAPTER

Is There a Trigger Trap?

"We no longer mean what we used to mean when we say that we are triggered," she says. "When you have a trigger, your brain is trying to get you to integrate something ... Now it's a terrible method." The best way to deal with trauma in the troubled mind is not to avoid triggers but to look at them and figure out how to connect the dots between this feeling and that stimulus. 'In fact if you've been a veteran or had sexual assault...you should never think about those things'

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