I had therapy today, was a weird & kind of hard session. My step mom asks how it was and I tell her it was good but difficult and she just says “well you can’t live in the past” like ….. I don’t even know what to say. How do you explain that you’re not living in the past voluntarily?? Like I don’t wake up and think “hmm what triggering thing can I think of today??” A lot of my family doesn’t understand why I have to bring up the past in therapy either, like they think it is too distressing and I should just focus on the present. I just think that some people truly just cannot understand that this is a disorder and sometimes no matter what you try there is no control over the triggers/feelings. At least that is the case for me right now