Exactly.  Do much this.  You face your triggers,  you get an anxiety,  feeling like you can't breath,  but than you tell yourself "you are safe.  It's whatever day,  you are xx old.  It's fine.  It doesn't affect you.  It won't hurt you.  You survived and you ll survive."  You have to convince your brain that to stop confusing past with present! You have to force yourself out of those automatic responses in order to be able to normal live.    You can't avoid triggers (ESSPECIALY if it's social triggers,  not like military)  if you want to get over it.  You never heal and learn how to deal with those feeling if you gonna hide all the time.