How do you battle triggers in the outside world?
Triggers can happen unexpectedly to me by glancing at a woman's chest, butt, or body, and it will send me off the deep end. Usually it's while driving, and sometimes while watching a regular television show or a commercial.
I wish triggers weren't so strong.
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What are your strategies for fighting off triggers?
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What are your strategies for fighting off triggers?
by SteveIamNot » Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:44 pm
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Re: What are your strategies for fighting off triggers?
by Maligan12 » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:44 pm
Masturbate. I soon get bored with the ideas.
Let's judge each other on our actions.
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Re: What are your strategies for fighting off triggers?
by Graveyard76 » Tue Nov 03, 2015 8:32 pm
Sometimes, you just have to remove yourself from situations.
I was doing conservation work at a historic cemetery, and really getting a lot out of what I was doing, until the job was about to involve repairs to the insides of vaults and loculi, where I would have come face to face with serious temptation.
So I had to quit. It wasn't that I didn't trust myself. I just knew that it would be triggering to the point of almost being painful, and it was exactly the right decision.
I was doing conservation work at a historic cemetery, and really getting a lot out of what I was doing, until the job was about to involve repairs to the insides of vaults and loculi, where I would have come face to face with serious temptation.
So I had to quit. It wasn't that I didn't trust myself. I just knew that it would be triggering to the point of almost being painful, and it was exactly the right decision.
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way or another." - The 7th Doctor.
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Re: What are your strategies for fighting off triggers?
by cumulusjames » Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:37 pm
Of course Lucy Faithful would tell you NOT to masturbate to fantasies. Their view is that masturbating to them creates them and strengthens them. They would probably recommend No-Fap - yes that is a real thing, one is not even allowed to have sex with oneself these days.
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Re: What are your strategies for fighting off triggers?
by Graveyard76 » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:23 pm
It's taking things a bit far when you can't even have a Barclay's.
Who is this Lucy Faithful anyway? What does she know?
Who is this Lucy Faithful anyway? What does she know?
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Re: What are your strategies for fighting off triggers?
by cumulusjames » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:29 pm
Graveyard76 wrote:It's taking things a bit far when you can't even have a Barclay's.
Who is this Lucy Faithful anyway? What does she know?
They run the help services for those who view CP including Stop It Now! helpline and Inform Plus course.
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