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Compounded trauma is when things make us upset, because they remind us of traumatic situations that we’ve experienced before, causing us to relive them.
When I feel this way, naming the feelings I am having, and explicitly connecting them, can be a way to overcome them.
The thing is, my wife likes creepy stuff. I don’t like watching surgery. When the scalpels come out, I check out of the movie.