Originally Posted by
not_so_insig
Against the odds by Susan Millard to be exact. The main character gets r*ped and now it's set off flashbacks of my own abuse.
I feel so stupid. It is only a book. It's a fictional one so not even an real account. I once read a book that was a real account of someone being abused and it didn't effect me in this way. I felt guilty because I bought the book knowing full well there was a r*pe in it.
I don't know what I want from this thread other than to say don't make my mistake.
I know how you feel completely. Triggers are tricky. At this point I am good enough that I can even read or watch something like that, and nothing...but then something small and completely seemingly unrelated would trigger me...That's how triggers work, anything that reminds you in some way, and you don't know what that can be...
When it comes to fiction though, I had huuuge trouble with Reign(so people who get triggered- don't watch season 2 or may be skip the series if you haven't watched them yet). Some moments there were really real for me, and it resulted in few very bad weeks in the beginning of this year.