When the Feelings Rush Back [DomesticShelters.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/15/164:00 AM

Triggers domestic violence survivors face, and how to get through them

A survivor might be able to escape a violent partner. But they may experience traumatic stress afterward, including triggers, or unsettling sensory reminders of previous trauma.

“A trigger is some form of stimuli that would precipitate a recollection from a person’s past that impacted one of their senses,” explains Mark D. Lerner, Ph.D., a clinical and forensic psychologist, traumatic stress consultant and author of It’s OK Not To Be OK … Right Now: How to Live Through a Traumatic Experience.

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