Do you deal with issues of abandonment?  How does this affect your life?  Your relationships?

How did the holidays go for you?

Talk about either of these issues. The original question at group was: What does it mean if I have flashbacks but all I see is black? This spurred discussion about how people experience flashbacks.

The topic is: Distancing past triggers from present scenarios.  Talk about whatever “triggers” in you!

How can we recognize triggers, or that we’re being affected by a trigger, BEFORE it causes problems?  Or is that even possible?

How do you deal with people who remind you of your perpetrator(s)?  Are you triggered?  Talk about this issue.

Talk about how triggers affect your life. “Triggers” here = things that take one to when one was young and make it hard to function in the present.

When others get defensive with you, how do you handle it?  Or, what happens to you?  Or, how does others’ defensiveness make you feel?