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 <strong>their pain has become their story</strong>, and <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’s story since the world operates according to the laws of one’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>
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