Two years ago, I had a scary experience with someone in a building. Afaik it didn't leave me with any lasting trauma, I can think directly about the experience and the person without flinching away... but I still flinch when thinking about the *building*. Why?
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When I imagine going to the building where it happened, I feel a bit tense and would really prefer not to do that. But when I run through the entire scary experience itself, my body feels pretty relaxed and fine. Does anybody have weird location-specific aversion at all?
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As a former addict, I have this experience where places can be associated to cravings
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I'm not pro trauma-construction, but flinching when you think of the building itself (I'll assume your issue is with the behavior of a person in the building) IS trauma manifested.
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Perhaps a form of transference and compartmentalization. Attaching the negative feelings to the building is less an affront to your personal agency than leaving them attached to the person...simply a theory
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I had that feeling about the intersection where I was in my one and only "road incident" (I don't call them accidents when the cause was negligence/distraction) but nowhere else when I'm riding.
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I feel this way about a grocery chain that I shopped at right before a breakup
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My anticipation is that you may be aware of the fact that the person is no longer there, but the *environment* did not change. You could find yourself in the same situation simply because the area didn’t change.
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