How Therapists (Mis)diagnose, Part I: Triggers

<p>When a patient triggers me, it is my task to find out whether I am in my childhood, or theirs. This involves becoming intimate with my pain. To recognize my own pain is to prevent my story from becoming my reality, or mistaking it for theirs.</p> <p>People largely go to therapy because&nbsp;<strong>their pain has become their story</strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>their story has become their reality</strong>. Once the pain gets big enough or enters early enough, it becomes difficult to tell it apart from one&rsquo;s story since the world operates according to the laws of one&rsquo;s pain just as the physical world operates according to laws of physics. The child of addicted parents is drawn to addicts (or becomes one) for similar reasons a magnetized pin is drawn to steel. When you polarize energy, it seeks its opposite.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@myartman/how-therapists-mis-diagnose-part-i-triggers-c3626abd1445"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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