“I too come from abuse and I am tired of people excepting the world to tippy toe around my past. We live in ONE BIG TRIGGER- LIFE. Trust me, I understand how hard it is to live with past demons. Ask yourself: Do you watch what you eat or drink where ever you go? Do you make sure you are careful to not ware certain clothes or colors? Have you ever used words such as a “starving”, “thirsty”, “cold”, “hot”, and so on? Use the silly phrase that we all use to too often, “It could start WW 3”? What about just saying the word COVID? ALL of the above can be triggers for so MANY other people that you come in contact with every single day of your life. The person who’s metabolism won’t allow them to loose weight or have an eating disorder. The alcoholic who has been sober for years and while we sip on our wine or enjoy an ice cold coke while they can’t have sugar. That one piece of clothing or the color in it that can bring back horrendous memories. The person next to you that hears you say you are starving when they grew up extreme poor, malnourished, come from a place where there was NEVER food just dirty water, or are homeless. There are war survivors among us that live the nightmare everyday and then hears a silly comment that could trigger that terror. All of the people this world lost because of a virus. I am not saying that we should not be sensitive to others I am saying we need to quit blaming others for our own physical/mental trauma that we live with. We need to get professional help to learn to live around and among these triggers and to quit using these triggers to keep us paralyzed. When we live looking for triggers or we let them control us we remain victims instead of being functioning contributing “persever-ERS”. We also loose an opportunity to be part of the greatness that a moment has to offer, like this piece of journalism.”
Nett Anne via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/19/22