Take Your Finger Off The Trigger

Years back, I was in NYC with a couple of friends and one of them is a Vietnam Vet. It was July and we were walking down the street. Some kid set off those small firecrackers that sound like a gun. The Vet, a 6’ 6”, 280 lb (at least) man literally dove onto pavement. It was a reflex reaction. I went to him and kept repeating his name until he finally came back to realize where he was. PTSD is not something that can be gotten over just because someone else thinks that they should be by a certain amount of time. C-PTSD is much the same. When people talk about “triggers”, they are basically talking about what their emotional or thought firecrackers are. Again, not something someone can have any effect with when they pronounce that they “should get over it”. Though that is the goal, it takes time, persistence and patience. Those experiencing C-PTSD and/or PTSD would be well off to learn things like Gestalt Inner Child Therapy, Somatics Exercises, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing) as immediate methods to calm the nervous system are needed for daily life as the vast majority of people either accidentally or unintentionally spark those firecrackers, those triggers. The daily practice of Meditation is also a powerful daily practice to add as this keeps the nervous system calm in general.