Having established a few vulnerabilities, having established that I have cut down most of the situations that trigger my social anxiety and therefore potentially a sense of panic, having established that my protected life is basically to be surrounded by the two most major triggers of all, how does one go about telling them: hem, please, stop talking , yo are triggering me, I can feel it? Every word increments the pain in my chest and I feel it so I fight it and try to breath but as yet don’t have the appropriate techniques so how does one tell him please just shut up without starting a fight that will make everything worse?
Ah well, can’t be helped, looking forward to four hours in the car with this battle.
[…] pick up my son from Uni for a few weeks back home, dealing with my husband’s achievement of triggering me in just one sentence and dealing with coming off that. Worrying about our move then the above mentioned dear friend […]
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I don’t mean I like what you’re going through, but you put it well. I think Blah’s got some healthy suggestions.
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Headphones and music or white noise? And maybe call it sensory integration/processing issues so they get more blinded by science and less offended?
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