SH trigger:How do such harmless triggers cause such problems

I guess I spoke too soon. I can't speak my mind because I don't feel like I have a mind to speak. She says things like that and I feel cornered, like I have nothing to say, no rebuttal, no counterattack.

Actually I think it's good you are pretty precise about what happens. It's good to know where you are when you're there. Now I have no doubt you actually do have a mind in there, you express it here all the time and that mind is clever and able to make many sophisticated distinctions. So there's a place you go to when faced with her behavior, her accusations, a place that is probably familiar to the majority of people on this board. Even if they aren't going there now, to the blankness, I'll bet most of us, or some of our alters, know that place, that state of mind, very well from the past. I know I do.