Even the act of care giving itself may
trigger painful memories from the mother's history of trauma, making it very difficult for the mother with BPD to cope with the daily challenges of parenting (Main, 1995).
Not exact matches
Your
triggers can be both specific and general, some instantly transporting you back to a
painful memory and others eliciting a vague sense of something just not feeling right.
For me, health scares
trigger a cellular
memory of repeated, long journeys riddled with blood tests, tissue samples, emotional agony, family distress, surgery and
painful recovery processes that followed a moment just like the one I described above.
Again, I see what the developers intended, a harrowing exploration of the hospital where
painful memories are
triggered, but it struggles to tell its tale well.
The telling may
trigger intolerably
painful memories, or the
memories may be fragmented and incomplete.
In severe cases, people, places and actions can
trigger our
painful emotional
memories.
Usually a counselor will take a history from both parties, to better understand what current events might
trigger painful past
memories.
They can distinguish between, and deal with, the
painful emotions shared with loved - ones who are in pain, as well as
painful feelings
triggered in their own
memory and experience.