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When family holidays trigger your trauma responses

My anxiety gets so bad during the holidays that I have started making excuses to avoid family gatherings but then I feel guilty for abandoning my cousins who are still stuck.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Returning to the scene of your wounding can reactivate pain you thought you had processed.

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